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Cat crisis taxing shelter system

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF The plight of hundreds of thousands of unwanted cats across Canada each year is causing great concern among animal shelters and other organizations, say attendees at a provincial meeting in Red Deer on Thursday.

The Red Deer and District SPCA, Edmonton Humane Society and Calgary Humane Society hosted a meeting that drew 38 people representing more than 20 organizations from around Alberta. All were on hand to begin seeking community-based solutions to cat overpopulation.

Barb Cartwright, CEO of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, was leading the meeting as part of a national tour to find out how to deal with Canada’s cat crisis.

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come through our doors,” said Cartwright after the day-long session at Sheraton Red Deer Hotel. “Only about 44 per cent of them get adopted out.

Many of them have to wait and the longer they wait, the likelier they’ll become ill or become euthanized.”

Cats are five times more likely to be euthanized than dogs, said Cartwright.

This data, collected from more than 478 stakeholders, was compiled in the federation’s recent comprehensive report, Cats in Canada. The report says there’s an estimated 10.2 million owned cats in Canada and the owned cat population is growing faster than the number of households.

A total of 37.7 per cent of all Canadian households owned a cat with an average number of 1.9 cats per household. Based on market research, 80 per cent of owned cats have been sterilized, leaving 20 per cent unaltered.

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Energy sector skill shortages critical: report

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Direct employment in the oil and gas sector could grow by 38,700 positions over the next decade, says a report issued on Thursday by the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada.

The council said about 195,200 people worked in the industry last year, up 10 per cent from 2009. In a high-growth scenario, in which Canadian energy suppliers gain access to international markets, the figure is projected to jump 20 per cent, to 233,900, by 2022.

At the other extreme, with low growth in the industry, direct employment is expected to rise about nine per cent, to 213,500.

“But to achieve this workforce growth, the industry will actually need to find between 125,000 and 150,000

new workers by 2022,” said Cheryl Knight, executive director of the council. “This is because while the industry is growing, it will also be losing workers to retirements and turnover.”

In either scenario, said Knight, labour shortages can be expected.

“Skill shortages are critical and every sector will be affected,” she said.

In the case of the oil and gas services sector, between 37,700 and 47,900 new employees will be needed, said the Petroleum Human Resources Council report.

The oilsands sector will need 14,900 to 22,200 new employees, conventional exploration and production companies will require between 6,850 and 10,700 people, and in the pipelines sector the range will be 3,000 to 3,250 new workers.

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Great-grandmother graduates RECEIVES HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

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Principal Angie Bishop of Parkview Adventist Academy with new graduate Claire Ritchey, 85.

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An 85-year-old great-grandmother received her high school diploma more than six decades after leaving the classroom behind.

Claire Ritchey was one of 37 graduates from Parkview Adventist Academy who were awarded for their hard work last week in Lacombe.

Ritchey said receiving her diploma was a dream come true.

“My husband died in November and it left a real void,” said Ritchey. “It filled it quite well. You can do some-

thing and get your mind on something else. And if I can inspire other people to go back to school and students to continue, it has been worth it.”

In 1944, Ritchey had just completed Grade 11 when she left Kelowna to go to a boarding school in Lacombe.

Ritchey expected she would automatically go into Grade 12 but the grades were not transferable so she had to take Grade 11 classes. She stayed for the year and was a few courses short of a diploma when she left in 1945.

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Grandfather jailed eight years for sex assaults on children After almost five years of sexually abusing his grandchildren, a Red Deer man has been sent to jail for eight years.

The victims were his stepson’s son and daughter, as well as one of the boy’s friends.

A court-ordered publication ban protecting the identities of the victims prevent the man from being named.

The man pleaded guilty to the charges on Nov. 19 and was sentenced by Judge Jim Hunter in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday. During the proceedings, the man trembled and shook as he sat beside his attorney, Red Deer lawyer Walter Kubanek.

Crown prosecutor Jason Snider asked for a six- to eight-year sentence, leaning on the longer side of the range. Kubanek suggested a jail term of less than four years.

Over a five-year period, the man regularly sexually abused the

too young and scared.

The man and his wife of over 20 years — now separated as a result of the charges — were the primary caregivers of the grandchildren.

The abuse of the male children was almost daily, while the abuse of the female children was not as common but did take place.

As well as the Collicutt Centre change room, abuse took place in the family home in Red Deer and another home elsewhere in Alberta.

At one point during the court proceedings, a person in the gallery burst into tears, saying they couldn’t stand to watch it anymore.

One victim read an impact statement. The victim spoke about loss of trust; feeling angry, alone, sad, depressed and scared; and having nightmares as a result of the abuse.

The victim, because of this case, lost contact with some family by coming forward.

grandchildren.

Some of the instances took place in the Collicutt Centre’s family change room, where he abused both male and female victims.

Although he pleaded guilty to the charges when he was asked to explain them in more detail during his Forensic Assessment Outpatient Service examination and the creation of his pre-sentence report, he claimed memory loss and could not recall the incidents.

The reports suggested he was maligning or feigning mental illness and the claims of memory loss were a coping mechanism.

Although he said he had no recollection of the events that the children were accusing him of, he said the children would not lie and he wouldn’t put them through a trial.

There were several instances of sexual abuse over five years and multiple victims.

The judge noted that two more victims did not want to come forward because they feared either breaking up the family or were

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CATS: Overpopulation problem could worsen

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They may receive 700 to 800 cats a year and of those, about 20-30 per cent are euthanized because they are feral or sick and therefore deemed unadoptable, Coomber said.

Stacey Worobetz, founding director with Whisker Rescue, said it’s hoped that a fund can be set up, perhaps with the help of corporate donations or other sources, where it can be accessed for low-income families so that spaying or neutering can happen. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

SHORTAGE: Far-reaching impact Knight said a labour shortage in the energy sector would have a far-reaching impact.

“For every job created in our industry, three more are created in other areas of the economy,” she said.

“Our report estimates that by 2022, the oil and gas industry will sustain between 900,000 and one million

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After returning to Kelowna, Ritchey went to college for accounting, worked in that field for about 30 years and raised a family.

When her husband Don’s health took a bad turn in 2008, the couple moved to Lacombe. Her two sons, Jerrold and Landon, were working at Canadian University College.

Ritchey said they encouraged her to take classes.

She signed up for some art classes and eventually thought to take courses that would lead to a diploma.

School officials said the art classes combined with her life experience, work experience and credits would be enough for a diploma.

Ritchey said she wasn’t nervous going back to school after all these years. She said her 16-, 17- and 18-year-old classmates welcomed her with open arms.

Ritchey said some called her grandma and others gave her big hugs.

“It hit me a year and a half ago,” said Ritchey. “I think God put it in my mind to do it because it was exactly what I needed to do.”

Relatives from Kelowna, Seattle, Portland, Montana, Spokane and Lacombe attended the ceremony.

Her grandson, Adam, 18, was also part of the 2013 graduating class.

Ritchey has three children, six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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EDMONTON — Alberta’s minimum wage is increasing by two dimes at the end of August and will remain the lowest in the country.

Effective Sept. 1, the 29,300 workers on the lowest end of the pay scale will earn $9.95 an hour.

The liquor server wage will remain unchanged at $9.05 an hour.

Government figures show Nunavut’s minimum wage is the highest in Canada at $11 an hour.

Minimum wage workers in Ontario and British Columbia make $10.25 an hour, while minimum wage in Saskatchewan is $10.

The Alberta government says its overall wage may be the lowest, but it is the second highest — behind only B.C. — after personal exemptions and taxes are factored in.

“We know that only 1.8 per cent of employees in Alberta earn minimum wage,” Human Services Minister Dave Hancock said in a statement. “After taxes, Alberta’s minimum wage is the second highest amongst Canadian provinces and provides a good starting point for entering the workforce. From this starting point, we want to see these workers obtain the skills and experiences to advance their careers.”

The size of the increase is determined by a formula that considers average weekly earnings in the province and the consumer price index.

The government says the weekly minimum wage for real estate agents, car salespeople and similar workers who are on commission will rise to $397.

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jobs across Canada.”

Nearly half of these will be indirect jobs in industries like construction, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, and about 30 per cent will be “induced” jobs driven by the spending and service needs of direct and indirect industry workers.

The report, entitled The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada’s Oil and Gas Industry, urges industry, government and educators to work together to address the situation.

“Connecting Canadians with available jobs should be a top priority,” said Knight. “But we also need to look at accessing labour in provinces with high unemployment; looking at under-employed groups, aboriginals, new grads, youth and new Canadians; enhancing mobility of transferable skills and qualifications; building more effective and efficient education, training and apprenticeship programs; and utilizing the temporary foreign worker and immigration programs where appropriate, such as for shorter-term assignments and industry-specific occupations.”

The report also recommends improving Canadian’s awareness of the energy sector literacy and the career opportunities it offers. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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It’s projected that more than 600,000 homeless cats in Canadian shelters did not find homes in 2011. More than one-third of the cats surrendered to shelters were surrendered due to issues of housing, followed by the animal taking up too much time or responsibility.

At this point, if large-scale, targeted action is not taken, the cat overpopulation problem will worsen, says the report.

Cartwright said they hope these meetings will result in concrete actions at the local level in the next year. The federation will look at how it provide resources at the community level.

A Central Alberta strategic alliance has been formed which includes Red Deer and District SPCA, Whisker Rescue Society of Alberta, Town of Innisfail bylaw department, and Alberta Animal Services, which is contracted by the City of Red Deer to provide animal control.

Tara Hellewell, executive director for the SPCA, said that everyone in this industry is feeling the strain of cat overpopulation due to irresponsible pet ownership, lack of spaying and neutering, and the view that cats are disposable.

“People are very concerned — they don’t want to see kitties out in the streets, going hungry and getting frostbite,” said Hellewell. “And sometimes people don’t like them roaming around their backyards and attacking songbirds. So there’s a number of reasons why it’s a challenge for our population. The Red Deer and District SPCA wants to be at the forefront of solving the problem.”

The shelter is always full and so the shelter must often turn people away who have cats to drop off.

The SPCA doesn’t euthanize for space, but other organizations or municipal services are having to do this, she added.

“Veterinarians are key because some of the initiatives we want to start are spay and neuter programs, especially for low-income folks,” said Hellewell.

Erica Coomber, shelter administrator with Alberta Animal Services in Red Deer, said the cat crisis is highly evident in Red Deer. Ninety-five per cent of the cats that end up with Alberta Animal Services are not neutered or spayed, not tattooed or microchipped, or collared.

“We claim out maybe one per cent,” she said.

The biggest problem in Red Deer on why cats are given up is due to rental housing rules, she said.

Coomber said they have a really good adoption program where the cats are given to Petland Canada to adopt. Not one adoptable cat has been euthanized so far, she said.

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Friday, May 31, 2013

Doctors accept seven-year contract

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s rank-and-file doctors signed off on a seven-year contract with the province Thursday, wrapping up years of sometimes bitter negotiations.

“I was always hopeful that this day would arrive,” said Health Minister Fred Horne.

“I must say I’m really pleased to see not only the fact that we have ratification by members of the Alberta Medical Association, but that it is such a high figure.

“It’s a great day for Alberta physicians, but it’s a great day for our health system as well.”

The Alberta Medical Association announced that almost 94 per cent of its members who voted accepted the deal with the province. Voter turnout was 38 per cent, which the medical association said is typical.

In an open letter to doctors, association president

Michael Giuffre said “solidarity and support carried the day and allowed the AMA to find a way forward to conclude these lengthy and challenging negotiations.”

Doctors don’t get a pay increase for the first three years of the contract.

But the agreement is retroactive to April 2011, when the last contract expired, so the first two years of the pay freeze are already over.

The deal includes a one-time, lump-sum payment totalling $68 million to address financial challenges for doctors maintaining their own practices.

The contract also promises a physician compensation committee that will, among other duties, adjust relative payment rates or fees for various procedures or services.

There is also recognition of the association as the ongoing representative of physicians for compensation talks and a commitment by Alberta Health to continue to work with the group on primary care.

The two sides will consult on ongoing implemen-

tation of electronic medial records and on ways to find savings in the system.

Contract talks have been going on for years and turned bitter in recent months.

Late last year, Horne imposed a wage deal on the doctors, but then withdrew it in the face of widespread criticism.

In March, Giuffre wrote a public letter to Premier Alison Redford, urging she reprimand Horne for breaking promises to doctors during negotiations. He said Horne hid key financial numbers and imposed short, arbitrary deadlines that hindered the process.

Horne said bad blood is typical when dealing with contentious issues.

“I don’t think any successful negotiation is going to be a smooth and easy process,” said Horne.

“If you’re actually committed to sitting down at the table and dealing with difficult issues in health care, you’re going to have some acrimony along the way.”

The AMA represents Alberta’s 8,000 physicians.

Chinook’s Edge School Division balances its budget

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta’s largest rural school jurisdiction balanced its $122-million budget with little impact on the classroom for the upcoming school year.

Chinook’s Edge School Division treasurer Susan Roy said the board received $3.2 million less in grants — $2 million on the instruction side and $1.2 million in facilities and transportation — from the provincial government.

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Conditions good at time of Alberta chopper crash: transportation board FORT MCMURRAY — Investigators looking into a fatal helicopter crash in northern Alberta say conditions at the time appear to have been good.

“Initial reports are that the weather was good,” Jon Lee of the Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.

Pilot Bryce Campbell of Golden, B.C., and provincial biologist Kristina Norstrom of Athabasca, Alta., were killed in the crash.

A second provincial biologist, Simon Slater, was injured and remained in stable condition in hospital.

Lee said the chopper went down over level, forested terrain that appears dry from photos of the site.

“It is flat and boreal forest,” he said. “It is not in water. The ground looks pretty firm.”

Two investigators were at the scene and a third was in Fort McMurray at the offices of helicopter owner Wood Buffalo Helicopters. That investigator was expected to interview Slater.

The scientists were collecting radio collars that had fallen off caribou in the Birch Mountain area northwest of Fort McMurray.

“It’s surveying work, to count numbers,” said Environment spokeswoman Jessica Potter.

Such flights are conducted periodically as part of the province’s ongoing work on diminishing caribou herds in northern Alberta.

“Our staff are really missing a quite dedicated and very competent individual,” Potter said.

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OFFENDER: Apologized Another victim impact statement was written by the mother of a victim, but not read in court.

Hunter said the man’s position of trust and the nature of the sexual offences were aggravating factors in his decision.

Pre-sentence reports also indicated that the man was a moderate to high

from the classroom teaching time as possible when finding efficiencies. After putting the budget in place, there will be $900,000 less in the reserves and 15 fewer teachers.

Roy said the good news is there were enough retirements in the district to cover the deficit. The positions were not filled. Last fall, there were 574.5 teachers and as of Thursday, there are 559.5 teachers in the division.

“The division is working really hard to make sure every day dollar we receive from the provincial government and parents in terms of fees is spent as wisely as we can for the students,” said Roy.

Roy said when the provincial budget came down in March, they were not reeling from the shortfall because the district had been looking at tightening its belt for several years. The district looked at every school, timetable and program to find ways to save money.

Roy said the plan has been to redirect any savings to programs but in light of the provincial grant shortfall, they used savings to balance the budget.

Student enrolment is expected to remain roughly at current level of 10,736 in its 41 schools. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

No sign of cougar: Banff park officials reopen area where big cat attacked

about obscene language being used around the youngsters led to one woman punching another, pulling her hair out and throwing her to the ground.

A third woman then kicked the victim.

Thirty-four-year-old Tania Lenni Day Chief, 54-year-old Theda Day Chief — both of Standoff, Alta. — and Tamara Margaret Day Chief, 24, of Glenwood, Alta., each face one count of assault.

They are to appear in court June 19.

BANFF — Parks Canada says it has reopened an area north of the Banff townsite where a cougar attacked a man who fought the animal off with a skateboard.

Officials say wildlife specialists have searched extensively for the big cat involved in the attack on May 23, but have been unable to find it.

Nor have they found a carcass or anything else that would indicate the cougar’s presence.

The man originally reported the attack anonymously, but officials tracked him down to get information about the cougar.

The man told them he was attacked while he was listening to music through earbuds and while walking between the townsite and an industrial area.

The cougar knocked him to the ground from behind, but the man was able to get away uninjured when he stunned the wildcat by hitting it with his skateboard.

A woman from nearby Canmore was killed by a cougar in 2001 while she was cross-country skiing near Lake Minnewanka, also in Banff National Park.

Three women charged in fight at children’s hockey game LETHBRIDGE — Police in southern Alberta have charged three women after a fight at a children’s hockey game earlier this year.

A police news release says officers were called to the Adams Ice Arena in Lethbridge in February about a disturbance involving several spectators.

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Dogs put down, owners fined after Calgary police officer bitten CALGARY — Owners of two dogs involved in an incident last month in which a police officer was bitten on the leg have been fined more than $3,200.

On April 9, animal and bylaw services officers and police were called to a neighbourhood in Calgary for a report of two large dogs running loose near a school.

While officials tried to capture the two Tibetan mastiffs, one of the dogs was tasered and a police officer was bitten.

The dogs were surrendered to bylaw officials.

In a release, Alvin Murray with the Animal and Bylaw services departments says behavioural assessments made it clear the dogs could not be allowed out in public again. Both have been euthanized.

Murray says putting animals down is a last resort and “the ultimate consequence of not properly caring for and training your dog.”

The owners were charged with multiple counts under the Responsible Pet Ownership Bylaw and fined after an appearance in provincial court.

risk to re-offend, relative to other sexual offenders.

The judge sentenced the man to eight years in jail and ordered he be put on the national sex offender information registry and provide a DNA sample.

He will also be prohibited for the rest of his life from attending a public place where children are, or could be reasonably be expected to be. He can’t work with children or use a computer with the purpose of contacting a child.

He also can’t possess a firearm or other weapons.

The man apologized for “the pain and embarrassment I have caused everybody.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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What do they stand for?

CANADIAN POLITICS HAVE BECOME ALMOST SAD: LEADERS STAND FOR NOTHING AND MAKE POLICY DECISIONS BASED ON THE LATEST POLLS

BY ROBERT MURRAY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Recent political events across Canada at both the federal and provincial levels have brought the issue of ideological politics, or in most cases the lack thereof, to the forefront of just how Canadians are being led.

The Senate expense scandal has shook a seemingly stable Conservative majority government to its core, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s poor handling of the situation has made matters much worse.

Provincially, issues such as B.C.’s Liberal Premier Christy Clark’s disaster-filled tenure, Alberta’s PC Premier Alison Redford’s budget mismanagement, and Ontario’s former Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty’s eHealth, Ornge, Gas Plant and labour scandals have Canadians from coast-to-coast asking exactly who is leading us and upon which principles are they doing so.

Canadian politics have become almost sad, in that we have leaders elected who stand for nothing and make policy decisions based on what the latest polls tell them is fashionable or expedient.

Electoralist politics of the worst kind are guiding Canada’s political landscape and what is perhaps even most disturbing is that Canadians are

not standing up to rein in such porous behaviour.

Where is the outrage? Where are the calls for elections or votes of nonconfidence? Where are the protests that millions of taxpayers’ dollars are being wasted as governments try to protect themselves?

The answer is fairly simple — Canadians are not electing leaders based on a sense of inspiration or a sincere desire to follow, but rather, they are often left to choose the lesser of the evils.

It is nothing new that political parties use polling data to guide policy, but what is abundantly clear from recent history is that those parties do not

stand for very much or present a fulsome vision of how the country or their respective provinces should be led. Political scientists teach what ideological tenets inform the initial formations of our current political party system and the way a Conservative, Liberal, New Democrat or other ought to think.

The problem is, in the real world, they rarely make policy according to the historical ideological basis for their party’s existence.

Federally, the Conservative government has shades of the right, but has grown the size of government, has constantly intervened in the economy, and spends far too much money — all of which are no nos according to a basic

Conservative ideology.

The federal NDP seem to stand for not being Conservative or Liberal but certainly do not resemble the traditional NDP ideological stances of the past.

The newly-branded Justin Trudeau Liberals have presented no concrete policy ideas whatsoever, and Trudeau’s leadership seems to be based more on a famous last name and boyish good looks than the prospect of strong leadership.

Other examples at the sub-federal level tell a similar story, with Redford’s PCs behaving more like Liberals and Ontario’s Liberals behaving more like an NDP government.

Throughout the Canadian political spectrum, there is a crisis of leadership and the proof for this is best found through the sheer number of scandals plaguing the country’s political leaders right now.

Whether you identify yourself as a Liberal, Conservative or a member of the Rhino Party, you do so because a party is expected to stand for a specific set of values that guide how they lead and make policy.

In the absence of great leadership, Canadians have been settling and it is time to stand up and say enough.

Scandals, boondoggles, and cover ups should not be tolerated and as Canadians we need to ask ourselves why they are and just what we are going to do about it.

To date, believing in nothing seems to be costing more than actually believing in something.

Robert Murray is an adjunct professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. This column was provided by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

We need a true socialist alternative After a major setback for the NDP in the recent election in British Columbia, it is time for the party to make a serious assessment.

According to the polls, the NDP were supposed to replace a failing, unpopular Liberal regime but in fact the Liberals increased their majority.

The NDP had a 20-point lead and the Liberal government of 12 years was plagued with scandal, so what went wrong?

The NDP leadership has been emulating the Blairism of the British Labour Party by moderating policies to win over the middle ground of undecided voters. This has led to electoral disaster for Labour in the U.K. and now for the NDP in B.C. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.

Instead of running scared from the “big, bad socialist” attack ads, which were financed by big business, the leadership of the NDP should have used the opportunity to spell out an alternative socialist program.

The anti-socialist campaign successfully undermined the NDP by putting forward the idea that the NDP would not be capable of running the present financial/economic system. This tactic only worked because the leadership of the NDP failed to explain the crises of the present economic system.

The acceptance by the leadership of the NDP of the capitalist system means acceptance of its need to carry out cuts in the name of austerity. This must result in the reduction of the living standards of the majority of the population and these are the working people who constitute the support base of the party.

The B.C. election turnout was low at only 48 per cent and this is a manifestation of the fact that people will not vote if the only choice on offer is the continuation of the lowering of their living standards.

The developing crises of the present system will continue to put pressure on the general population with increasing unemployment, cuts to working conditions and to social services. This is a recipe for industrial and civil discontent that will activate the NDP and the trade unions.

The days when the present economic system could supply the needs of the majority of the population are over. Improvements to living standards are impossible in a system that can no longer develop the means of production.

We are now faced with decades of decline and stagnation.

The NDP must put forward a program for an alternative economic system that will provide for the needs of all. It must be a socialist plan of production that will nationalize the banks and major monopolies under democratic control of the workers in those industries. It necessitates democratic control by the majority of the population instead of control by the few.

The NDP must pledge to: provide free education and nursery places like Quebec’s $7-a-day public childcare program, the abolition of student debt, free education for all and an end to poverty.

Initiate a program of public works for full employment that will furnish roads, infrastructure, schools, hospitals and homes for all.

To ensure all the care and support that is essential for the elderly.

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Diving into Red Deer’s past Upon the Red Deer centennial: I have a picture of the original diving towers at the outdoor Recreation Centre pool, upon which, as a youth, I contemplated my courage and destination many times!

This photo brought back a multitude of memories, once seeing the elevation and the platforms with the cement block-fencing at the back. I could write another note on the adventures “me and me mates” had on this diving tower or at the pool.

But two memories stand out: Regularly diving off of the five-metre platform and then diving off the 10-metre ... and waiting for impact. Looking down at the water and waiting to hit, another quick look, then splosch! Down you go, almost to the bottom of the diving tank (17 feet at the deepest incline I think).

The second bold memory was in the evening, the pool was open to 8:45 p.m., during the Fair (pre-Westerner days). You could go up there, the 10-metre, middle to late ’70s and watch the fair! You could see the ferris wheel, the flashing lights and hear the hypnotizing midway! You could even see the pony chuck wagons (if you were lucky with the starting times) race around the track! All this with no gate admission, only with a swim pass!

Great times in Parkvale, under the prairie sun and due to this Olympic standard diving pool.

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Senate scandal sad news: Banks

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF A retired Canadian senator is astonished by the spending scandal that has surrounded several Canadian senators because he said rules require expense claims to be made public each year.

Tommy Banks, a Liberalappointed senator from Edmonton, served from April 2000 to December 2011, when he retired at the mandatory age of 75.

He has been watching the controversy with great interest.

“Given the fact that senators know their expenses will be published every year and it will be public information, why would you try to fudge that?” said Banks, before speaking to 45 people at Red Deer Public Library’s downtown Snell Auditorium on Wednesday night.

Fair Vote Canada (Red Deer Action Team), Public Interest Alberta and Red Deer Public Library hosted Banks, a man known across Canada as a musician and broadcaster.

Banks said the latest controversy is sad news for the 800 senators of the past and the 105 now sitting in the Upper House.

They abided by the rules and are now being tainted by this. He keeps in touch with friends who are still in the Senate.

“They’re astonished, as I am,” said Banks. “The Senate doesn’t get much attention paid to it, except when some

awful thing happens, which is relatively rare.”

Banks told the audience that the Senate is not broken.

“It’s not corrupt, Parliament is not corrupt,” he said.

“It works perfectly as long as the people in it are working.”

Banks said that rules do not need to be changed, although some are being reformed because of this scandal. In his view, these changes are simply window dressing.

“The rules, as they were, were fine,” said Banks, 76. “It turns out that four senators were accused, not yet convicted, of breaking those rules.”

Banks said it’s still uncertain what’s happening because no one has been convicted of anything.

“It seems like there are now questions about two or three senators as to (their primary residences) and there are doubts about some other senators as to whether they claimed living expenses properly while working in Ottawa,” said Banks.

Former Conservatives Patrick Brazeau, Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin and former Liberal senator Mac Harb have been asked to repay thousands of dollars in improper expense claims.

The Senate has asked the RCMP to investigate expenses claimed by Duffy and to look into the $90,000 payment he received from the prime minister’s former chief of staff so he could repay the money he owed for inappropriate expenses used for his housing allowance.

Wallin has agreed to pay

back at least $40,000 of expenses, so far.

“It’s an admission that they have done something wrong,” said Banks. “The other two senators, Brazeau and Harb, are contesting and saying they haven’t done anything wrong.”

Duffy and Wallin have since resigned from their caucuses and are serving as independents, but are still senators.

Some Canadians are calling for their resignations from the Senate.

“There is no doubt that (Duffy and Wallin) took some money that they shouldn’t have, otherwise they wouldn’t have undertaken (the effort) to repay it,” said Banks.

In the old days, when a senator or any politician did something egregiously wrong, they would have resigned, Banks said.

“These days, it seems like it’s the last thing that happens,” he added.

He anticipates the senators will only resign if an indictable offence is found.

Banks also spoke about the concentration of “unwarranted power” in the Prime Minister’s Office, which he said has been going on for a decade.

This is not just about Prime Minister Stephen Harper, he added.

Banks said the fault lies mostly with the members of Parliament — and to a lesser degree the Senate, which cannot bring the government down on a vote of non-confidence.

“When I go to vote for somebody to go to Ottawa, I hope that if they see something

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Retired senator Tommy Banks speaks to a group at the Snell Auditorium at the Red Deer Public Library on Wednesday. wrong or is questionable, they will say so,” said Banks. “Muz-

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Harper mum on how he dealt with scandal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is steadfastly refusing to acknowledge any question about his leadership during the months last winter when an expense scandal involving three of his Conservative Senate appointees was in the public eye.

Harper has spent the past three days insisting that he first learned that his chief of staff had helped pay off Sen. Mike Duffy’s $90,000 in improper expense claims only after the public was told of the matter by CTV in mid-May. But he has failed to address repeated questions about how he instructed his staff to handle the politically damaging expense revelations after they first aired late last fall.

Neither Harper nor his NDP and Liberal counterparts were in question period Thursday, so it fell to Heritage Minister James Moore to bear the brunt of the opposition onslaught.

“Duffy keeps the $90,000 while the Receiver General gets $90,000 from an illicit deal that was so wrong it cost Mr. Wright his job,” said Liberal MP Ralph Goodale.

“Will the government repudiate the dirty money and instead garnishee Duffy’s wages and seize his assets so he pays for his wrongdoing, not some dealmaker in the PMO?” Moore pointed out the matter is in the hands of the RCMP.

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Sanctuary drops abuse allegations against Ikea monkey owner

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OSHAWA, Ont. — A primate sanctuary is no longer alleging that the Ikea monkey was abused by the woman who calls herself his “mom,” who wept in court Thursday as she described the bond she shared with her “son.”

Yasmin Nakhuda took her baby monkey, Darwin, everywhere after she paid an exotic pet dealer $5,000 cash for him in July, she testified. Nakhuda, a Toronto real estate lawyer, took him to work, to the gym, grocery shopping, to a wedding and brought him in the shower with her, she said.

She took him to an Ikea store in December and she double-locked his crate and locked the car, telling him Ikea wouldn’t allow him in the store and she would be right back.

“I explained that to Darwin,” she testified. “He understands when you have a conversation with him.”

But Darwin escaped and caused quite a stir, running around the furniture store parking lot in a little faux-shearling coat. Toronto Animal Services scooped him up and sent him to Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary in Sunderland, Ont. She felt like she had lost her son, said the mother of two boys, age 12 and 16.

“I think when I had my two children I didn’t have time to mother them — I was more focused on building my practice,” Nakhuda said through tears. “Having Darwin...was like the chance to experience motherhood again...I treated him like my son. It sounds bizarre to some people, but that’s how we treated him.”

Nakhuda sued the primate sanctuary to get Darwin back and was the first witness to testify at the start of the trial Thursday. She alleges animal services tricked her into surrendering the monkey.

The case is not a custody battle — as Darwin is not a child — rather, Nakhuda is suing for recovery of personal property.

She has gone to court twice already in ultimately unsuccessful bids to get Darwin back on an interim basis and at one of those hearings the sanctuary alleged that she had abused the monkey, by “strangling” him and hitting him with a wooden spoon.

At the outset of the trial Thursday, Kevin Toyne, the lawyer for the primate sanctuary, said it was withdrawing those allegations in the interest of keeping the trial short. It is scheduled to be heard over four days.

Nakhuda, who vehemently denied the allegations at the time, shook her head in court as the sanctuary lawyer made the announcement.

She testified that she knew it was illegal in Toronto to own a pet monkey and said if she gets Darwin back the family will move to the city of Kawartha Lakes, a municipality that has no such bylaw.

TORONTO — Several big foreign tobacco companies lost a bid on Thursday to have a $50 billion lawsuit by the Ontario government thrown out of court.

Ontario’s Court of Appeal refused their request.

The three-judge panel unanimously said it sees no legal reason to overturn a lower court ruling that the case should proceed.

Ontario launched a lawsuit against 14 tobacco companies in September 2009 to try to recoup past and present health-care costs related to smoking.

The province claims the corporations should be on the hook for billions of dollars because they misrepresented the risks of smoking, did not take steps to reduce the effects and marketed cigarettes toward children and teens.

The tobacco companies argued that Barbara Ann Conway of the

Big-city mayors want action on affordable housing crisis THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The mayors of Canada’s largest cities say there is a growing housing crisis across the country, with many people unable to buy homes because of record-high household debt, new economic realities and changing demographics.

The Big City Mayors’ Caucus met Thursday in Vancouver, ahead of the annual meeting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, emerging with an invitation for their provincial and federal counterparts to meet and address the problem.

“Housing affordability is putting home ownership outside of the reach of many Canadians, and we need to think hard about what that means in terms of what policies can we do to support housing affordability, how can we stimulate new rental housing, as well a what we do about existing social housing,” said Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi.

“We need to start working with the federal government and our provincial governments on a national view of housing.”

The average price of a new home more than doubled from 2001 to 2010, the mayors pointed out.

Just 10 per cent of new

residential construction in the past 15 years has been dedicated rental housing, yet 32 per cent of Canadians live in rental units, according to the federation.

Saskatchewan needs 6,500 to 7,000 new housing starts a year to meet demand and attract

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An astonishing 42 per cent of Canadians under age 29 still lived with their parents in 2011, compared to 26 per cent in 1981, the federation said.

There is a crisis of homelessness, as well, said the federation, with 1.5 million families in need of housing and an estimated 300,000 in shelters and on the streets.

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As the firestorm continued to rage, Ford said he’s staying put.

“I’m not stepping aside,” Ford said late Thursday.

“I’m running in the next election. Things are doing great and we’re doing fine.”

Repeatedly asked about the allegations, Ford simply said: “Anything else? Anything else” That left his brother, Coun. Doug Ford, to denounce a Toronto Star report — it did not name its sources — that alleged the mayor told senior aides not to worry about the video purportedly showing him smoking crack because he knew where it was.

“This is another false accusation. This is the Toronto Star trying to keep the story alive,” Coun. Ford said.

“In my opinion, we have a disgruntled employee, ex-employee I should say, that obviously is upset that’s thrown these false accusations out.”

Ford had already parted ways with three key staff members — his chief of staff and two press aides — since the scandal erupted two weeks ago. The latest departures brought the number to five.

In a similar pattern to when former chief of staff Mark Towhey was escorted out of city hall, another aide, policy adviser Brian Johnston, left under escort Thursday.

Johnston told reporters in the basement garage he had resigned because “the timing was right.”

Ford’s executive assistant, Kia Nejatian, also left the mayor’s office early Thursday although the circumstances were not immediately clear.

Earlier in the day,

Ford elbowed his way through a crush of media as he entered city hall.

As reporters attempted to get him to respond, he said only “move!” as he pushed into his office.

In a sign of the tension outside the mayor’s “fishbowl” office, every glimpse of the mayor was accompanied by the clacking roar of camera shutters.

At one point, reporters rushed after a Ford aide thinking he had been fired. He was only going to the washroom.

Two weeks ago, the U.S. website Gawker and the Star said they had seen cellphone video made by a drug dealer that apparently showed Ford smoking crack.

The reports have not been independently verified and the Star itself has said it could not vouch for its authenticity. Gawker has raised $200,000 to try to buy the video.

According to latest Star report, sources said Ford told alarmed senior aides a day after the scandal erupted that he knew where the video was, and named apartments at a west-end complex.

Still, Ford insisted it was business as usual.

“I emphasize, and I assure you, that the work is being done, phone calls are being returned, emails are being responded to.”

But unhappy councillors said the scandal has disrupted business at city hall.

Coun. James Pasternak expressed dismay at how Ford has refused to address the allegations in a substantive fashion.

“We’re looking for unequivocal statements from the mayor,” Pasternak said. “The ducking and weaving and waffling just won’t work around here.”

Pasternak said the circus that has surrounded Ford is a damaging distraction that gets worse with each passing day.

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The companies contend there is no evidence that a conspiracy ever took place or that they specifically targeted Ontario. British American Tobacco notes it did not even exist until 1997.

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The Ontario government says smoking is the leading cause of premature deaths and illness in the province and costs the healthcare system $1.6 billion a year.

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“We are not persuaded that any of the appellants have demonstrated such error,” the appeals court wrote in a 43-page ruling.

The Ontario government issued a statement saying it was pleased with the court decision.

The tobacco companies include four large multinationals, three of which include Canadian manufacturers. They are BAT Group (which includes Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.); Rothmans Group (Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc. and Rothmans Inc.); RJR Group (JTI-Macdonald Corp. and Macdonald Tobacco Inc.); and the Philip Morris Group.

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Tearful mom recalls loss of baby while in prison

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Patricia Block choked up as she told B.C. Supreme Court how she placed her infant daughter in the car seat of a foster mother, handed over a bottle of breast milk and kissed the girl goodbye as the baby was taken away from her before she returned to the prison where she was incarcerated.

Block and one other former inmate have launched a constitutional challenge, saying the end of a provincial program that would have allowed her baby to stay with her in the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge discriminated against her.

But she faced questioning from Crown lawyers Thursday who suggested a provincial jail is no place for an infant and noted that Block was also rejected by a federal institution to have her baby with her.

Block, 35, was about three-months pregnant when she entered Alouette in September 2008 after being arrested for possession for the purpose of trafficking.

By then, the program that allowed babies to stay with their mothers in jail was no longer available.

Block wanted to keep her baby with her, so she applied to serve her two-year sentence at Fraser Valley Institution, a federal facility, where she might be eligible for a similar mother-baby program there.

Block was transferred in November 2008, but her application to the federal mother-baby program was rejected.

She gave birth to a daughter, Amber, in March 2009 at an Abbotsford hospital, where Amber was taken away from her.

“It was while you were at FVI that you were told you wouldn’t keep your baby there?” Crown counsel Tyna Mason asked Block during cross-examination.

“Your child was taken from you while you were at hospital in federal custody?”

Block answered yes to both questions, prompting Mason to ask: “Yet you filed a claim against the province, is that correct?”

According to court documents, Alouette’s motherbaby program was cancelled in 2008 because of safety risks. The Crown’s statement of defence says babies were exposed to aggressive behaviour and contraband.

Block admitted inmates occasionally yelled or swore at the facility, but for the most part, “things were pretty calm.”

“It’s not much different than any other environment,” she said. “There’s foul language everywhere.”

During her direct testimony, Block relived the moments that lead to her separation with Amber, who

is now four years old. Block had found out a week before her due date that she had not been accepted into the mother-baby program at Fraser Valley Institution.

“I just cried the whole time,” she said, tearing up.

She said she barely slept during the two days postdelivery, hoping to savour every minute she could with Amber until a social worker and a foster mother came to take her away.

“The foster mom came in with a car seat,” she said, her voice heavy with emotion. “I had milk in the fridge for her, I’d been pumping so she could take it with her. I got her dressed, put her in the car seat. I gave her a kiss.”

Block said after she was taken back to Fraser Valley Institution, Amber visited regularly. Block was also able to send her breast milk, something advocates for the Mother-Baby Program say is crucial to an infant’s healthy development. Several months later, Block was released on parole and was reunited with Amber.

Block, who now lives in Penticton with her children and husband, had been imprisoned in Alouette twice prior to her sentence in 2008. In both previous circumstances, the Mother-Baby Program was still in place.

CANADA Porter to fight extradition to Canada MONTREAL — The former head of Canada’s spy-agency watchdog is planning to fight his extradition to Canadian soil following his arrest in Panama, his lawyer says.

Dr. Arthur Porter and his wife, Pamela, sat behind bars Thursday in a Panamanian detention centre, a few days after local authorities took them into custody on an Interpol warrant.

Porter, who lives in the Bahamas, has been wanted for months in connection with Quebec’s ongoing corruption scandals and the construction of a $1.3-billion hospital complex.

His wife faces a related charge.

Developments in the case reveal an improbable web of interpersonal connections. They place Porter one degree of separation from a pair of notorious 1980s figures: the Lockerbie bomber and former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.

He is slated to be treated by an oncologist who once examined the Libyan terrorist’s cancer. Those medical plans were revealed Thursday by the Porters’ Panamanian lawyer, who once helped smuggle cocaine with Noriega.

Porter was appointed

by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to head the Security Intelligence Review Committee, which monitors the work of CSIS. He says he’s done nothing wrong.

His lawyer told The Canadian Press that the couple will not only contest their extradition, but will also seek bail in the coming days.

“He has the right to fight and he has decided to fight,” Ricardo Bilonick said in a phone interview from Panama City.

Scaled-down search for missing Canadian to resume today SYDNEY, Australia — Australian police say they will resume a scaled-down search today for a Canadian hiker who has been missing in the Kosciuszko National Park for more than two weeks.

Prabhdeep Srawn, 25, has been missing since May 13, when he went for a bushwalk in the park in New South Wales.

Police began a search for him May 20, but the operation was scaled back earlier this week as officials determined that the chance of finding the Brampton, Ont., man alive had decreased.

New South Wales Police said in an email Thursday that bad weather had hampered Thursday’s search.

The search involved a helicopter and nine officers, down from 15 on Wednesday.

The force had said Tuesday that the search would only continue for two more days, but on Thursday it said the operation would resume Friday morning.

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ROBYN REGEHR

REGEHR RE-SIGNS WITH KINGS Defenceman Robyn Regehr agreed to a two-year, $6 million contract extension with the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday, passing up a chance at free agency this summer. The defending Stanley Cup champions announced the deal while the team travelled to Chicago for the start of the Western Conference finals on Saturday.

Regehr has appeared in just 12 regularseason games and 13 playoff contests with the Kings, who acquired him from the Buffalo Sabres on April 1 in a trade for two second-round draft picks. The 13-year NHL veteran has splendidly filled the physical void left by injured Kings defencemen Willie Mitchell and Matt Greene with relentless, hard-hitting defence and penalty-killing proficiency. He also has three assists while partnering with highscoring defenceman Drew Doughty.

Today

● Senior high boys soccer: Lacombe at Olds, 4:15 p.m., Olds College.

Senior high girls soccer: Alix at Eckville, 4:15 p.m.

Senior high rugby: Girls playoffs at 5 p.m., boys playoffs at 6:30 p.m., all games at Titans Park. ● Parkland baseball: Acme at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park; Rocky Mountain House at Eckville, 7 p.m.; Lacombe at Innisail, 7 p.m. ● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Spruce Grove/ Edmonton at Blackfalds, 8 p.m., Multiplex. ● WHL: Rebels prospects camp, 3-5 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

Heat 90 Pacers 79 MIAMI — There will be no win-or-else Game 6 in the Eastern Conference finals for the Miami Heat this season. LeBron James saw to that, and now the reigning champions are one victory from a third straight trip to the NBA Finals.

James finished with 30 points, eight rebounds and six assists, Udonis Haslem made his last eight shots on the way to a 16-point night, and the Heat used a dominant third quarter to turn things around and beat the Indiana Pacers 90-79 in Game 5 on Thursday.

Mario Chalmers scored 12 points and Dwyane Wade added 10 for the Heat, who lead the series 3-2 and will look to close it out at Indiana on Saturday night.

The Heat ousted the Pacers in six games in a second-round matchup last season.

Paul George had 27 points and 11 rebounds for the Pacers, who got 22 points from Roy Hibbert and 17 from David West.

The Pacers led by as many as seven at one point, but had no answer for the Heat in the third, getting outscored 30-13 in the period, including 21-6 in the final 7 minutes.

James and Haslem combined for 26 points in the third, and were simply too much.

Haslem’s first shot of the night hit the side of the backboard.

He didn’t miss again, going 8 for 8 and sealing it with a jumper with 1:51 left — 12 seconds before drawing an offensive foul against Lance Stephenson, the sixth for the Pacers’ guard, who finished with just four points.

A year ago, the Heat lost Game 5 of the East finals to Boston, and needed a 45-point game

from James in Game 6 just to extend their season.

Not this time.

The Finals — and a date with San Antonio — is now one win away.

As if this one needed any more buildup, there was plenty of news long before tipoff.

The NBA announced in the morning that it fined James, West and Lance Stephenson $5,000 apiece for flopping in Game 4, along with upgrading a foul that West committed against Wade in the fourth quarter of that game to a flagrant-1. Then Hibbert and West, speaking after Indiana’s morning practice, said they have to protect their knees when Shane Battier is in the game for Miami, though neither flatly accused the Heat forward of dirty play.

And all that happened more than eight hours prior to game time.

Things didn’t exactly calm down once the ball went into the air.

Indiana was blown out in Game 5 of a tied-up series at Miami last season, never holding the lead and losing by 32 points. This one took a much different tone from the outset, with the Pacers running out to a 15-9 lead that could have been worse for Miami given that West and Hibbert combined to miss three easy layups in the opening minutes.

George and Hibbert combined for all of Indiana’s 23 points in the first quarter. Indiana’s lead was four after the first quarter, and when the second began, the reminders that these teams simply do not like each other started coming fast and furious.

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Miami Heat forward LeBron James jumps for a shot as Indiana Pacers guard George Hill defends during the first half of Game 5 in the NBA playoff Eastern Conference finals, Thursday, in Miami.

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Dickey and Jays struggle in loss to Braves

Saturday

● Junior golf: CJGA Nike Junior Series at River Bend. ● Women’s rugby: Calgary Hornets at Red Deer, noon, Titans Park.

Senior women’s lacrosse: Calgary Jr. B Axemen at Red Deer, 1:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Men’s third division rugby: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer, 1:45 p.m., Titans Park. ● Men’s second division rugby: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m., Titans Park. ● WHL: Rebels prospects camp, 3:45-5:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Alberta Football League: Edmonton Stallions at Central Alberta Buccaneers, 6 p.m., Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park.

Sunday

● WHL: Rebels prospects camp, 9-11 a.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

Junior golf: Nike Junior Series at River Bend. ● Bantam AAA baseball: St. Albert at Red Deer, doubleheader at noon, Great Chief Park. ● Senior women’s lacrosse: Calgary Cougars at Red Deer, 1:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Vermilion at Blackfalds, 2 p.m., Multiplex.

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Atlanta Braves’ Ramiro Pena, right, scores on a single by Jordan Schafer as Toronto Blue Jays catcher Henry Blanco waits on the throw in the sixth inning of a baseball game at Turner Field in Atlanta, Thursday.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Braves 11 Blue Jays 3 ATLANTA — R.A. Dickey said he felt good throwing his knuckleball.

His results indicated otherwise.

Dickey gave up six runs and a seasonhigh 11 hits in six innings as his disappointing 2013 season hit another low mark in Toronto’s 11-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night.

Dickey (4-7) has allowed six or more runs in four games this season, leaving his ERA at 5.18 one season after he won the NL Cy Young Award with the Mets. He allowed as many as six runs in only one game last sea-

son — eight runs in a 14-6 loss to the Braves on April 18, 2012.

“I’ve just got to trust the process,” Dickey said after issuing only one walk with two strikeouts. “Today I felt good. I found the strike zone all day long.”

Dickey said he gave up a lot of soft hits.

“I might have given up four hard-hit balls all night,” he said. “I mean, it was tough. It seemed like every ball off the bat would find a hole somewhere, or a little space in the outfield.

“This game’s tough. It’s hard. And you can’t quit grinding it out, and you can’t quit searching for the answers. I certainly won’t.

And I’ll find it. I’ll find it.”

Toronto manager John Gibbons said

Dickey’s velocity on his knuckleball is down.

“He’s been battling that, trying to find it,” Gibbons said. “He battles you out there.

I know that’s frustrating him.”

Mark DeRosa had a two-run double in the sixth inning as Toronto pulled even at 3-3.

Ramiro Pena drove in four runs with three hits for Atlanta, including a run-scoring single in the bottom of the sixth that gave the Braves the lead.

Freddie Freeman and Reed Johnson homered for Atlanta. Evan Gattis had three hits and Jordan Schafer had two hits, including a two-run single in the sixth.

Pena, Schafer and Gattis made the most of fill-in starts as manager Fredi Gonzalez rested three regulars hitting below .200: outfielders B.J. Upton and Jason Heyward and second baseman Dan Uggla.

Mike Minor (7-2) gave up six hits and three runs — two earned — with five strikeouts and no walks in winning his fourth straight decision.

The Blue Jays scored three runs in the sixth to pull even at 3, but the Braves scored three runs off Dickey in the bottom of the inning. Pena’s infield single drove in Gattis, who led off with a single. Schafer singled with two outs to drive in Chris Johnson, who reached on a fielder’s choice grounder, and Pena.

“There are some positives that I want to take out of tonight even though it was a tough loss for us and even though it was a tough loss for me personally,” Dickey said.

One day after a 3-0 loss to the Blue Jays, the Braves made some lineup changes.

Third baseman Juan Francisco, who was sharing time with Chris Johnson, was designated for assignment. Francisco was hitting .241 with five homers, 16 RBIs and 43 strikeouts in 108 at-bats.

Schafer, who hit leadoff and started in centre field for Upton, had a first-inning double that bounced over DeRosa at third base. Schafer scored on Andrelton Simmons’ single to left.

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Schwartzel rebounds from mistake for lead at Memorial

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ohio — Charl Schwartzel made sure one hole didn’t ruin an entire round Thursday in the Memorial.

Schwartzel hit the ball so consistently well at Muirfield Village that the former Masters champion twice had stretches of four straight birdies. And when he made a double bogey with an 8-iron in hand and his ball on a tee toward the end of the round, he got rid of that bad taste with one last birdie for a 7-under 65.

Schwartzel had a one-shot lead over Scott Piercy, who went from smashing it to playing it safe, and he was six shots clear of five-time winner Tiger Woods.

Woods hit the ball well

enough to be much closer, though he missed too many birdie chances and didn’t make up any ground on the par 5s.

“That’s probably the highest score I could have shot,” Woods said after his 1-under 71.

Woods was one shot worse than 53-year-old Fred Couples, the Presidents Cup captain at Muirfield Village this fall, and one shot better than 14-year-old Guan Tianlang, who has played more PGA Tour events than Woods over the last two months.

Rory McIlroy, meanwhile, might be headed for another short week at the tournament Jack Nicklaus built.

After opening with a birdie, McIlroy didn’t putt nearly well enough to atone for some loose shots.

McIlroy four-putted the par-3

12th for a double bogey, had a three-putt bogey on No. 7 and ended his round by missing a 4-foot birdie putt. That gave him a 78.

“I don’t really have many explanations for this,” McIlroy said.

Schwartzel played in the morning, when the slick greens were still smooth, and he made 10 birdies in his round. Most of them were in the 10-foot range, though he picked up a bonus with a 25-foot putt down a slight ridge on the 16th. As well as he played, he thought a great round might turn into just a good one with one swing.

His 8-iron on the par-3 eighth hole drifted right and caught the downward slope of a bunker. The South African tried to put a little more spin on the

difficult shot and wound up sending it over the green. He chipped past the hole to about 8 feet and missed that to take double bogey.

What saved him was a 12-foot birdie putt down the hill on his final hole, allowing him to leave the course with a smile. That’s not to suggest that if he had made par on the last hole he would have been ready to retire from the game.

“It would still be OK,” Schwartzel said. “It’s really when you’ve played that well and you’re thinking you get these few rounds a year where you really strike it well and you’re making lots of birdies and you walk off with your 8, 9 under.

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Drastic measures for goalie crisis

HOCKEY

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HEAT: It’s the playoffs Chris Andersen and Tyler Hansbrough needed to be separated early in the second, and both got technicals after Andersen appeared to hit Hansbrough twice, first with a shoulder and then with a two-hand shove. Andersen also picked up a flagrant-1 for his efforts, things cooled off a bit for the rest of the half, and Indiana went into the break up 44-40.

The Pacers then scored the first basket of the third.

After that, all Heat. Or more specifically, all James and Haslem, who put together a burst that the defending champions desperately needed.

“It’s the playoffs,” Wade said.

“Shane Battier said this is when you feel alive, when your back’s against the wall. ... You’ve got to go out there and play. This is what we prepared for all season.”

If nothing else, that season won’t end this week, not after what the Heat did in the third quarter.

Haslem got past Hibbert easily and into the lane for a dunk that put Miami up 47-46, the first Heat lead since 4-2.

The Pacers were back on top by a point with 6:58 left in the third when fighting words reappeared, on a play where George Hill was called for an offensive foul after getting caught pushing off on a drive. West angrily approached Chalmers after the play and both of those players, along with Haslem, got technicals when it was all said and done.

It clearly fired up Miami.

James and Haslem combined to score 18 of their team’s 21 points in the final 6:04 of the third — and everything came on jump shots, including a 3-pointer from Chalmers, three jumpers averaging 20 feet from Haslem, and five more from James, including a 3-pointer with 16 seconds left in the quarter that put Miami up 70-56 and had him yelling at no one in particular as the arena roared.

Indiana had been up six in the third — and a 20-point swing later, suddenly found itself down 14. James accounted for 25 points (scoring 16 and setting up nine more with four assists) in the period, 12 more than the Pacers managed combined.

Just like that, the game — and perhaps the series — changed.

NOTES: The last time Haslem had a 10-point third quarter was also against Indiana — but in March 2009. ... David Beckham was courtside near the Heat bench, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was courtside near the Pacers’ bench. ...

Hansbrough left in the fourth quarter with a sprained right ankle after falling over Battier, who was down on the court after going for a rebound. ... Both teams seemed a tad nervous in the opening moments. Wade had two airballs in the first quarter, Haslem had a jumper bounce off the top of the backboard, and Hill tossed an alley-oop that missed everybody and bounced off the backboard like a fastball.

JAYS: Outstanding Gattis, starting in left field, led off the second by slapping a single to right field. Gattis scored on a single to left

by Pena, who started for Uggla.

Freeman pushed the lead to 3-0 in the third with his two-out homer off Dickey. The homer came on the night fans received Freeman bobblehead dolls.

Toronto pulled even in the sixth.

Dickey led off with an infield single and moved to second when Simmons misplayed Jose Bautista’s grounder for an error.

Edwin Encarnacion drove in Dickey with a single to centre field and DeRosa added a two-run double to right field.

Gonzalez said Minor was “outstand-

ing.”

“We misplayed a double-play ball that could have got him out of the inning, but he held his composure,” Gonzalez said.

“He gave us an opportunity to score some runs. He’s just been tremendous.”

Reed Johnson hit a pinch-hit, tworun homer off Todd Redmond in the eighth.

NOTES: Dickey has allowed 12 homers this season. ... The Braves selected the contract of LHP Alex Wood from Double-A Mississippi. Wood, a 2012 second-round pick from the University of Georgia, pitched the ninth, allowing one hit, in his major league debut. ...

Atlanta improved to 22-3 when scoring first. ... The Braves open a series against NL East rival Washington on Friday night when Julio Teheran (31) faces Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg (3-5). The Blue Jays’ seven-game road trip continues at San Diego, when Chad Jenkins (1-0) will face Padres RHP Jason Marquis (6-2).

GOLF: Didn’t capitalize “And today was one of those where I really did flush it. And you’re thinking maybe another birdie, and then get knocked back with a little 8-iron making double,” added Schwartzel.

Woods, trying to win five times before the U.S. Open for the first time in his PGA Tour career, looked as though he might get much closer to the lead despite having to lay up on both par 5s on the front nine and failing to make birdie.

He hit 5-wood into about 25 feet for a two-putt birdie on the par-5 11th, and then spent the last few hours giving away shots.

He made bogey from the back bunker on the par-3 12th, missed a 6-foot birdie putt on the 13th, and chopped up the par-5 15th despite getting a break off the tee when his ball hit a tree and went back into the fairway.

He still had to lay up, but a simple wedge went some 40 feet long to the back collar, and Woods had to make a 5-foot putt just to save bogey.

“Didn’t capitalize on a few opportunities I had,” Woods said.

“Short irons, I didn’t hit them close enough. All in all, it was a pretty high score.”

It wasn’t nearly as high as what Nick Watney (82) and Nicolas Colsaerts (80) had on their cards.

Woods plays in the morning for the second round and should be able to at least get closer to the top going into the weekend.

Bill Haas and Matt Kuchar each had a 68, the best score of the afternoon.

Piercy is one of the longer hitters on tour, so it would seem his game would be a good fit for the Memorial. He hasn’t had much luck, so he decided to scale back off the tee and used 3-wood where he typically would hit driver to take it over the bunkers. Piercy had a 66, his best score in 10 rounds at Muirfield Village.

Josh Teater, Russell Henley and Kyle Stanley were at 67, while Charlie Wi, Matt Jones and Michael Thompson shot 69.

Piercy hit one of the longest drives on the 18th hole last year, leaving him a flip wedge to the green. Muirfield Village is a big golf course, with some of the widest fairways on tour and thick rough — it should be thick for fairways that generous.

But hitting driver never really worked for Piercy, so he decided to go with 3-wood, and he stuck with his plan.

He still had relatively short irons into the green, and he knew he was onto something when he ran off five straight birdies on the front nine.

“I thought I’d hit a lot of 3-woods today and open up the fairways and allow me to get at some pins and knock them on the greens and make some putts,” he said.

“Maybe I’m getting older.”

draft since 2008 (Chet Pickard). Last year, of the 24 goalies taken, only 11 were Canadian, a trend that’s been going on for years.

When Mark Visentin of Waterdown, Ont., was drafted in the first round by the Phoenix Coyotes in 2010, he was the first goalie born and trained in Ontario to go in the opening round since Adam Munro of St. George, Ont., back in 2001.

The absence of a dominating goalie, meanwhile, has become an issue of increasing concern for the Canadian national junior team in recent years. The junior nats haven’t won gold in the last four tournaments — they were fourth in Ufa, Russia this year — and haven’t had a standout netminder since Carey Price in 2007.

Euro goalies playing for other countries in the same tournament, like Makarov, have stung Canada repeatedly.

“Watching us lose to goalies that play in our league, who have been honing their skills in our league, was driving me crazy,” said Tugnutt.

Tugnutt insists it’s an issue of opportunity more than quality. CHL teams eager to win sometimes choose an older European goalie over younger Canadians or Americans. A classic case came with the OHL Erie Otters this season when they brought in 19-year-old Oscar Dansk of Sweden to play ahead of a 17-year-old American and a 16-year-old Canadian.

Czech-born Patrik Bartosak of the Red Deer Rebels came to the CHL last year as a 19-year-old. Last Saturday, he was named the CHL’s top goaltender after playing ahead of three younger Canadians this season.

“I might not have had my chance to play in the NHL if there had been European goalies in junior back then,” said Tugnutt, who played three years for the OHL Peterborough Petes including 537 in the NHL. “The idea of having to win has totally overshadowed our CHL developmental league.”

Birch said the OHL symposium will look at on- and off-ice goalie developmental issues in Ontario, how goalies are used in games and try to develop long-term recommendations.

“We’ve had no difficulty developing opportunities for forwards and defencemen. Now we need to look at goalies,” said Birch.

While restricting CHL teams to using only North American-born goalies might seem a drastic move and somewhat xenophobic, there already exists a limit of two European import players per team, regardless of position.

Any new rule involving goalies would probably not take effect until 2014, and would be phased in over a number of seasons.

The attention being paid to the issue is similar to 15 years ago when major philosophical and structural changes came out of a Hockey Canada national summit that have helped to produce a new generation of skilled offensive players such as Steven Stamkos, John Tavares and Taylor Hall.

Something similar is needed now for goalies.

Closing the doors to teenaged netminders from Europe won’t be the solution.

But, at least temporarily, it might help.

Thurber tops Red Deer schools at track and field zones, Wetaskiwin nets most points Wetaskiwin High School Sabres accumulated the most points in the Central Alberta track and field zone championship in Camrose Wednesday.

The Sabres finished with 415 points to win the 3A schools title with Lacombe second with 220. Lindsay Thurber High School of Red Deer was second overall and first in the 4A division with 361 points while Hunting Hills had 309 and Notre Dame third with 145.

Central High of Lacombe topped the 2A division with 121 points with Central Alberta Christian High School of Lacombe at 102.

Bentley ran away with the 1A title, finishing with 128 points with New Norway at 72.

Paige Leek of Caroline won the junior girls aggregate title with 27 points, two ahead of Mackenzie Ramsell of Innisfail and four ahead of Chantel Park of Lacombe.

The intermediate girls’ title went to Natasha Smallwood of Wetaskiwin with 27 points, five more than Hanna Delemont of Hunting Hills.

Erin Seater of LTCHS was first in the senior girls’ division with 32 points, one ahead of Kendra Sorensen of Notre Dame and five ahead of Jordanna Cota of Hunting Hills.

The boys’ junior title went to Brayden Posyluzny of Notre Dame, who finished with 33 points, six up on David Erasmus of St. Thomas Aquinas in Provost.

Jonathan Allan of Eckville finished with 31 points to win the boys’ intermediate title, two points up on Ian Vanderhoek of Central Alberta Christian.

The senior title went to Tyler Smith of Wetaskiwin, who finished one point up on teammate Alex Andres, with 27 points.

There were six zone records broken, two by Posyluzny, who won the 100-metres in 10.96 seconds and the 200m in 22.68 seconds. The old mark in the 100m was 11.12 seconds set by Stephen McPhee of Bentley in 2007. Posyluzny was also only 1/100th of a second off the provincial record of 10.95 set by Brad McQuaig of Foothills in Okotoks in 1987.

The old zone record of 22.87 seconds in the 200m was set in 1990 by Dave Wade of Stettler.

Emily Lucas of Innisfail set a new record in the junior girls’ 3,000m with a time of 10:59.50, breaking the mark of 11:06.34 set in 2010 by Alana Skocdopole of Notre Dame.

Mackenzie Ramsell of Innisfail won the junior girls’ long jump with a mark of 5.33-metres, bettering the old mark fo 5.22m set by Chaundra Allard of Lindsay Thurber in 1998.

The other two records came in the senior boys division.

Tyler Smith of Wetaskiwin won the 400m in 50.05 seconds, one second ahead of the old record set by Kyle Domes of Camrose in 2001.

The other record came in the 100m hurdles where Austin Ganson of Lacombe won in 14.08 seconds. The old mark was 14.27 seconds set by Spencer Pasma of Notre Dame in 2007.

For complete individual event results see scoreboard on page B6.

Dodgers’ Kemp goes on DL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Dodgers placed slumping All-Star centre fielder Matt Kemp on the 15-day disabled list Thursday because of a right hamstring strain.

The move was made before the team completed a string of four consecutive games against the Angels. Kemp was injured while running down a double in right-centre by Mike Trout in the Dodgers’ 4-3 loss Wednesday night.

It was the fourth time in Kemp’s career that the two-time Gold Glove winner has been on the DL, including two stints last season because of a left hamstring strain that cost him a combined 51 games.

The Dodgers were 24-27 in his absences.

“It’s not bad luck. It’s life,” Kemp

said.

“I never want to be away from the game, but I have to at the moment. It comes with the territory, but it’s disappointing.”

Kemp, who just two seasons ago finished runner-up to Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun in the NL MVP voting after hitting a career-high 39 home runs with 126 RBIs and a .324 average, is batting .251 this season with two homers and 17 RBIs in 51 games, and has struck out 60 times in 191 at-bats following offseason shoulder surgery.

In his last six games, he is 1 for 17 with 10 strikeouts.

The Dodgers recalled catcher Tim Federowicz from Triple-A Albuquerque to take Kemp’s place on the roster.

Right fielder Andre Ethier was moved to centre field in manager Don Mattingly’s starting lineup, the 49th he has used in 53 games.

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It’s a drastic solution.

Canadian goaltending is growing and That said, many would argue the it’s compelling. crisis in Canadian goaltending has al● Corey Crawford of the Chicago ready reached such a level — who is Blackhawks was the only Canadian to going to play goal for Canada at next start among the eight NHL teams that year’s Sochi Olympics, by the way? — made the second round of the Stanley that drastic solutions are Cup playoffs. needed. ● The three finalists for When Canadian Hockey the Vezina Trophy this seaLeague commissioner Dason are all Europeans: New vid Branch met with Hockey York’s Henrik Lundqvist Canada officials this week, (Sweden), Antti Niemi (Finone of the topics on the land) of the San Jose Sharks agenda was that the 60 CHL and Columbus netminder major junior teams will conSergei Bobrovsky (Russia). sider banning all European ● The top CHL major goaltenders in order to give junior goalie this season more opportunities to North played in Red Deer, and Americans. was from the Czech Repub“The CHL has had dislic.

DAMIEN cussions in a broader sense ● It’s been five years COX with Hockey Canada,” said since a Canadian goalie was Branch. “One of the ideas selected first at his position put forward was eliminatin the NHL draft. For years, ing goalies from the annual less than half of all goalies import draft to allow more focus on drafted have been from Canada.

North American goalies. ● The top goalie at last week’s Me“That is something we’re explor- morial Cup tournament was Russian ing.” netminder Andrei Makarov of the SasAnd for some, it makes complete katoon Blades. sense.

“What are we missing here?” said “For me, it’s all about opportunity,” Joe Birch, the Ontario Hockey League’s said Ron Tugnutt, a former NHL goalie senior director of hockey development and Hockey Canada consultant who and special events. “Is there a probsupports limiting major junior goalie lem? We all believe there might be. positions to Canadians and Americans. But what is the problem?”

“There’s nothing wrong with goalBirch has organized an OHL goalie ies in our country and there’s noth- symposium for next month to investiing wrong with how we’re developing gate and try to come up with some anthem. They’re just not getting a chance swers for goalies from atom to midget to step up to the plate.” hockey.

The evidence that something has A Canadian-born netminder hasn’t gone seriously awry with the state of been the first goalie taken in the NHL

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Hawks show resilience Kings must solve scoring with rally over Wings woes to beat

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — In case there were any doubts, the Chicago Blackhawks are showing they can be resilient as well as dominant.

They made it look easy in the regular season. But they had to dig deep in the playoffs.

The Blackhawks dug their way out of a 3-1 deficit to Detroit in the Western Conference semifinals to take the series in seven games, beating the rival Red Wings 2-1 on Brent Seabrook’s overtime goal Wednesday night.

They will now face the defending champion Los Angeles Kings in what could be another difficult series for a team eyeing its second Stanley Cup in four seasons. Game 1 of the conference finals is in Chicago on Saturday.

This is hardly a time to breathe easy, but the Blackhawks can at least exhale a little after surviving a grueling series against another Original Six team.

“It’s not the way you want to win a series, going down 3 games to 1,” captain Jonathan Toews said.

“But to come out on top given the situation we were in three games ago, it shows the character that we have on top of the ability and the potential this team has. We need to use the ability and the confidence this gives us.”

No team made it look easier in the regular season than the Blackhawks, who got off to a record start and captured the Presidents’ Trophy for finishing with the most points. But it’s been a different story in the playoffs.

They came in looking for more after back-to-back first-round exits following their championship run in 2010. They took out Minnesota in five games and were looking good after a 4-1 win over Detroit in Game 1, but the series turned in a big way after that.

The Blackhawks managed just two goals in Games 2 through 4 and found themselves facing elimination.

It didn’t help that Toews lost his composure in Game 4 after being targeted by the Red Wings and wound up being sent to the penalty box three times in the second period. The Blackhawks were looking like an unglued team at that point, but they stuck together, instead. They held a meeting and began mounting an improbable comeback.

Chicago had to regroup again late in Game 7 after the potential go-ahead goal by Niklas Hjalmarsson got waved off in the closing minutes of regulation. The crowd was in a frenzy after he fired a shot past Jimmy Howard with 1:47 remaining, except it didn’t count. The Blackhawks’ Brandon Saad and Red Wings’ Kyle Quincey got tangled by the Detroit bench, and referee Stephen Walkom called roughing penalties as Chicago went in for the goal.

Seabrook wound up winning it in overtime with a wrist shot that deflected off Detroit defenceman Niklas Kronwall’s leg and sailed past Howard’s glove into the left side of the net.

The Blackhawks outscored the Red Wings 10-5 over the final three games and became the 25th team to win a series after falling behind 3-1. It was the first time a Chicago team had done it.

“You know what, we did have some learning

Blackhawks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews, top right, high-fives his teammates after their overtime win in Game 7 of the NHL Stanley Cup Western Conference semifinals against the Detroit Red Wings, Wednesday, in Chicago. curves in this round definitely,” Seabrook said afterward. “Detroit played a great series. We really had to find ourselves after the fourth game being down 3-1.

I thought the boys responded well. We played a very good Game 5. I thought we played a very good Game 6. I thought we played very well tonight. Detroit gave us all they had. It was just nice to come out on the winning end of this.”

Now, they’re looking at another big obstacle.

No goalie has been hotter in the playoffs than Los Angeles’ Jonathan Quick with a .948 save percentage, although Chicago’s Corey Crawford (.938) has been almost as good.

Quick dropped two of three games against the Blackhawks during the regular season. His save percentage was .857 and he allowed 12 goals.

“We’ve had progressively much tougher series and they keep getting tougher,” Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. “LA’s got the Cup and they’ve played two tough rounds in a row. They know how to win. We’ve got to be well-prepared and excited about the opportunity.”

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — After a rare day off for rest and contemplation, the Los Angeles Kings came back focused on what’s missing from their run at a second straight Stanley Cup title.

If the Kings can’t score more, they probably can’t scare mighty Chicago.

“We have to find a way to get the offensive part of the game accomplished without sacrificing the D,” captain Dustin Brown said Thursday between the Kings’ brief practice and their flight to Chicago. “We haven’t been able to do that yet, especially on the road. There’s no one reason, but it all comes back to hard work, just putting in the work to get more goals.”

The defending Stanley Cup champions are averaging exactly two goals per game in the post-season, lowest among the eight NHL teams who survived the first round. The Blackhawks are scoring 2.75 goals per game, while Pittsburgh and Boston are both above three goals per game.

The Kings realize they’ve got to help out Jonathan Quick, whose dominant goaltending propelled them — or maybe carried them — into their second straight Western Conference finals appearance starting Saturday at United Center.

Quick has allowed just 20 goals in 13 post-season games, but the Conn Smythe Trophy winner and his sturdy defence haven’t faced an offence with the Blackhawks’ speed and depth. While Quick leads the playoffs in goals-against average (1.50), save percentage (.948) and shutouts (three), even Quick realizes the Kings must do more to reach their second straight Stanley Cup final.

“We’ve all got to get a lot better,” Quick said. “We know we’ve got some work to do to beat those guys, because they had the best record in the regular season. They’re as tough as anybody out there.”

The Kings had few troubles scoring regularly in the regular season, finishing 10th in the NHL with 2.73 goals per game led by Jeff Carter, the Western Conference’s leading goal-scorer. Only Chicago and Anaheim scored more frequently in the West, but the Kings’ scoring touch has been sketchy in the playoffs despite their consistent success.

The Kings particularly struggle on the road, where they’ve scored just eight goals in six playoff games.

They’ve lost five times by an identical 2-1 score away from Staples Center, needing overtime for their only road victory.

“It is weird statistically, but we approach every game the same way,” said Colin Fraser, who won a Stanley Cup ring as a depth forward with Chicago in 2010.

“We’ve just got to find a way to execute it better on the road. You can’t change everything you do if you’re not getting the results you usually get. You’ve just got to work harder and do things better.”

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WILMINGTON, Mass. — The smile spread across Matt Bartkowski’s face even before the question was finished.

How will it feel to play against his hometown Penguins, the team he rooted for as a youngster?

“I can’t believe how many times I’ve been asked that,” the Bruins rookie defenceman said with a laugh. “It’s going to be awesome.”

Especially if Boston upsets Pittsburgh, the club that won two Stanley Cups in the 1990s with two players who became his idols, Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr.

Now Lemieux is a co-owner of the Penguins and Jagr is Bartkowski’s teammate in Boston. The teams begin the Eastern Conference finals in Pittsburgh on Saturday night.

“It’s kind of cool we get to play playoffs in my hometown,” Bartkowski said.

“At the end of the day, I’m on Boston and that’s Pittsburgh. We’re there to win.”

A former standout at Mt. Lebanon High — a proud school with its own rink tucked away neatly in a suburb south of Pittsburgh — Bartkowski made his playoff debut in Game 5 of the opening round against Toronto after being recalled from Providence of the AHL to replace the injured Wade Redden.

He next appeared in Game 7 vs. the Maple Leafs, scoring the first goal before the road team posted the next four. But he and the Bruins rallied, won 5-4 in overtime, and suddenly, he appeared as if he was there to stay.

He played well with this time in all five games of the next round against the New York Rangers. But Andrew Ference, sidelined the last seven games with a lower body injury, could return soon and that could leave Bartkowski out of the lineup.

All that said, he’s already accomplished more than he could have imagined when he was lightly recruited out of high school.

“I knew he could be a pretty good player probably by his junior year,” said Paul Taibi, his high school coach.

“The NHL was kind of a dream still at that point.”

As a senior, Taibi said, Bartkowski was the best player in Pennsylvania.

But hockey’s popularity in the western part of the state had declined by then — a lull between the end of the Lemieux-Jagr era and the start of the Sidney Crosby-Evgeni Malkin era.

“At that point, I was probably 14 or so,” Bartkowski said. “It died down for a solid four years or so until Crosby got drafted. ... Every time they get big players in Pittsburgh, it seems to jump start all the little kids playing, so it’s

good for the area.”

The Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 2009, their first championship since they won their second straight in 1992, three days before Bartkowski turned 4.

They played then in the Civic Arena — also known as the Igloo — located at 66 Mario Lemieux Place, and Bartkowski recalls skating there as a youngster.

He finally received some attention at the Chicago Showcase, a tournament for lightly recruited high school players where he was most valuable player. He spent two years in the United States Hockey League before being drafted in the seventh round by the Florida Panthers in 2008. But he chose to play at Ohio State for two seasons.

“I was drafted by Florida but I didn’t really go to any camps,” he said.

“So I’d watch the Penguins games. I was still a Penguins fan.”

Before Bartkowski played for the Panthers, they traded him to the Bruins in March 2010. He made his NHL debut on Jan. 10, 2011 in a familiar place, Pittsburgh. The Bruins won 4-2, overcoming a 2-0 deficit with four goals in the last four minutes. And his next two games? Both against the Penguins in Boston.

“You could see the potential, but it was raw and he needed some experience. He needed to get himself more confident,” Bruins coach Claude Julien said. “Right now, what we’ve seen in this guy is he has no fear.”

With just 27 games in his NHL career, including seven in the playoffs, he’s returning to a city where friends and family members will be in the stands. Julien doesn’t think that will be a distraction.

“He seems pretty excited. He’s looking forward to it,” Julien said. “At the end of the day, he knows who he’s playing for. He wants to do well for his team. The better he does, the better he looks in everybody’s eyes, whether it’s his hometown that’s rooting for the other team or whether it’s us.”

Bartkowski knows he has to play physically and be in the right position against the Penguins’ potent offence.

He’s eager to get started.

“I’m stoked up, pumped up and ready to go,” he said. “I’m sure the rest of these guys are because everybody’s calling them the favourites.”

For the first time, Bartkowski is getting steady playing time in the NHL. It’s allowed him to get into a rhythm and develop teamwork with other Bruins, a crew viewed among the deepest in the league.

“He’s playing with so much confidence right now,” said Taibi, who talks to him often. “I finally think he believes that’s where he belongs. He was playing without that cloud of, ‘Am I going to play the next game?’ He knew he was going to be in the lineup.”

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Bruins’ Bartkowski ready to head home in series against Pittsburgh

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Djokovik gets easy win at French Open 2011 CHAMP LI NA LOSES, CANADIAN BOUCHARD DOWN AGAINST SHARAPOVA IN MATCH SUSPENDED BY RAIN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — There were moments, as recently as last year, when a body that would not stay healthy and on-court results prompted Bethanie Mattek-Sands to wonder whether it was simply time to call it a career after more than a decade as a professional tennis player.

“She was ready to quit,” her husband, Justin Sands, recalled. “She was like, ’I’m done. I can’t do it. I don’t want to come back.”’

Instead, Mattek-Sands “stuck it out,” in her words, making some significant changes — to her diet after discovering a host of food allergies, to her pointto-point focus. And at age 28, in her 27th Grand Slam tournament, Mattek-Sands earned her most significant victory to date, a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 upset of 2011 champion Li Na at the rain-soaked French Open on Thursday to join four other American women in the third round.

“I know how I can play, and, you know, there were times when I just physically couldn’t do it,” the 67thranked Mattek-Sands said, “and I think that’s really frustrating.”

There was hip surgery less than a week after her wedding in late 2008, a torn shoulder in 2011, a broken right big toe in 2012. Her ranking plummeted from a best of 30th to outside the top 200. She found herself playing in the sport’s minor leagues and going through qualifying just to get into tournaments.

And now?

“She can take more enjoyment out of it, out of playing,” said her coach, Adam Altschuler. “We’ve got to go do it the day after this and the day after that. But it’s great for her to show the world she’s this good.”

By beating the sixth-seeded Li to earn her fourth career win in 25 tries against top-10 players, MattekSands helped give the United States its largest group of women in the third round at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament since six made it in 2004. The five U.S. women left, out of the 15 in the main draw, are the most this far at any Grand Slam tournament since the half-dozen at Wimbledon in 2005.

“We have a lot of talented, young kids,” MattekSands said, then added with a wink and a smile, “Obviously, older kids, too.”

The other Americans in the third round: No. 17 Sloane Stephens and 54th-ranked Jamie Hampton, who also won Thursday, and No. 1 Serena Williams and No. 29 Varvara Lepchenko, who won Wednesday.

“Other than Serena, we’re all a work in progress. A couple years ago, we were not even here.

And so we’ve definitely taken a step forward and we’re still progressing and still trying to make that push,” said Hampton, who beat qualifier Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia 7-5, 6-2. “Whenever you have a big group like that, there are going to be a few that are going to rise.”

Up next for the 23-year-old Hampton is No. 7 Petra Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion. The 20-yearold Stephens, meanwhile, faces 92nd-ranked Marina Erakovic, who beat No. 16 Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 to become the first woman from New Zealand to reach the French Open’s third round.

Stephens, like other players on a wet afternoon, weathered two rain delays during a 6-1, 6-3 win against Vania King of the U.S. “You literally have nothing to do,” Stephens said.

“Should I eat? Do cartwheels?”

Only 18 of 32 scheduled singles matches were completed, with two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka and 2011 U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur among the winners. Six were suspended in progress — defending champion Maria Sharapova led Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard by a set and a break

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Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard returns against Russia’s Maria Sharapova in their second round match at the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Thursday. when they stopped — and eight were postponed entirely, including seven-time French Open title winner Rafael Nadal against Slovakia’s Martin Klizan.

Last year’s runner-up to Nadal, Novak Djokovic, gestured at the dark, threatening sky between points, as if to admonish the clouds for even considering halting play before he could finish a 6-2, 6-0, 6-2 victory over 83rd-ranked Guido Pella of Argentina.

“The most important thing for a player in these interruptions and rain delays is not to get frustrated mentally, because it’s a very fine line. ... Your intensity is there, and suddenly they call it off,” said Djokovic, who is ranked and seeded No. 1 as he bids to complete a career Grand Slam.

“So it’s not easy warming up, cooling off, getting tape, putting off the tape, taking a shower or not taking a shower,” he said.

“It’s unpredictable.”

Coming out of a rain delay already down a set but ahead 4-3 in the second, Mattek-Sands reeled off seven consecutive games against Li, the only Chinese player to win a Grand Slam singles title and twice the Australian Open runner-up.

Down 5-0 in the third set, Li made one last stand, taking two games in a row. But Mattek-Sands steeled herself and served out the match on her second attempt, raising both arms overhead after a forehand

by Li hit the top of the net and didn’t make it over.

When a reporter wanted to know if she’d been bothered by an illness or injury, Li replied: “Why do you ask me that? Because I lose the match?”

She won both previous meetings against MattekSands, including in straight sets last month on clay at Stuttgart, Germany.

“A little bit surprised ... today, the way she’s hitting,” said Li, who has bowed out in the first or second round at half of the eight major tournaments since winning her trophy in Paris.

Mattek-Sands lost before the third round in 24 of her previous 26 Grand Slam appearances, the excep-

tions being a fourth-round run at Wimbledon in 2008 and a third-round showing at the French Open in 2011.

One difference nowadays is she travels with a list of about two dozen items she avoids eating because of allergies, including gluten and dairy, but also pineapple, peaches, tomatoes and garlic.

There’s also this: After preparing for matches by listening to music (rapper Macklemore of “Thrift Shop” fame is a current favourite), Mattek-Sands focuses from shot to shot and sticks to her tactics better than before.

“Every point is a new point. I have a plan and a purpose each point,” said Mattek-Sands, who now plays 118th-ranked qualifier Paula Ormaechea of Argentina. “I know where I want to hit my serve and where I want to hit my return. I know, basically, my game plan.”

Being able to count on her body helps, too, of course.

“Adam kept believing in her. I believed in her.

And we finally found answers with the nutrition side and the rehab side of things. Whatever we’re doing now seems to be working, so we’re going to stick with it,” Justin Sands said. “If she can stay healthy and continue to do what she’s doing, she can beat anybody.”

Mattek-Sands has often gained more attention for her fashion choices than her forehand. The metallic gold Wonder Woman ensemble. The argyle cowboy hat.

The leopard-print shorts. The eye-black patches.

The knee-high black compression socks she wore Thursday are to help circulation, not start conversation, Mattek-Sands explained.

“I haven’t worn anything too crazy on court for a few years now,” she said, sporting a plain black hoodie at her news conference.

“I feel,” Mattek-Sands added, “like my racket has been doing a lot of the talking.”

Top NHL prospects get set for combine, sign endorsements JONES, MACKINNON AND DROUIN GO THROUGH INTERVIEWS, SIGN EQUIPMENT DEAL WITH REEBOK-CCM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

The top three prospects in the 2013 NHL draft according to Central Scouting rankings, stars Jonathan Drouin, left, Seth Jones, centre, and Nathan MacKinnon attend a press conference in Mississauga, Ont., on Thursday.

TORONTO — Just days after the Memorial Cup, Seth Jones, Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin remain squarely in the hockey limelight.

Jones, the Portland Winterhawks defenceman rated the top North American draft prospect by NHL Central Scouting, has gone through interviews with 17 teams at this week’s NHL Combine. MacKinnon, the smooth centre from the Halifax Mooseheads rated second by Central Scouting, has also had 17 interviews.

Drouin, a high-scoring winger from the Memorial Cup champion Mooseheads rated the No. 3 prospect, had 19 interviews.

Some 100 prospects are at the combine, where the focus switches from interviews to fitness testing today and Saturday.

Jones wasn’t sure how many of the fitness tests he would do, saying his body was “definitely worn down” having played more than 90 games this year. Drouin seemed ready for anything.

The real test will come June 30 at the NHL draft at the Prudential Centre in Newark, N.J. Colorado picks first, followed by Florida, Tampa Bay, Nashville and Carolina.

“It still feels a little surreal that the draft is coming so close now,” said the six-foot-four, 205-pound Jones, a native of Frisco, Texas, who turns 19 on Oct. 3.

“Anything can happen,” said Drouin, pointing to potential trades.

Asked about the toughest question he faced from an NHL team interviewer, Jones paused but couldn’t pick one.

“A lot of tough questions,” he said.

“They try to trick you all the time.”

The son of former NBAer and current Brooklyn Nets assistant coach Popeye Jones, he had 14 goals and 42 assists in the WHL this season. He took up hockey in Denver while his father played for the Nuggets but said his interview with the Avalanche was no different than any other interview.

“They didn’t treat me special or anything from what I’ve heard from other players,” said Jones, a definite chip off Popeye’s block in terms of facial looks.

“A lot of the same questions as everyone else.”

The six-foot, 182-pound MacKinnon

was taken aback when one team asked him what kind of hockey player he would be if he couldn’t skate.

“It tricked me a little but because my whole game is around speed,” he said. “A tough one to answer.”

MacKinnon, a native of Cole Harbour, N.S., who doesn’t turn 18 until Oct. 1, had 32 goals and 43 assists in the QMJHL this season.

Drouin, who is listed at 5-10 and 186 pounds, said his toughest question was what kind of player he would be if he didn’t have hands — presumably soft hands.

“Hard question to answer,” he said.

“Probably chip the puck in and go.”

Drouin, a native of Huberdeau, Que., who turned 18 on March 27, clearly has good hands. He collected 41 goals and 64 assists, winning CHL player of the year honours.

The top three prospects are already getting a taste of what awaits young hockey stars. On Thursday evening, they were introduced as the new faces of Reebok-CCM. Sitting next to each other in Reebok gear at an airport hotel, it was clear they get on — despite Halifax’s 6-4 win over Portland in Sunday’s Memorial Cup final.

“They have bragged a couple of times,” joked Jones.

MacKinnon and Drouin noted that Jones had one over them as a member of the world junior champion Americans.

The three young guns will showcase Reebok-CCM equipment including the CCM RBZ skate and CCM RBZ Stage 2 stick (whose top of the line model will cost $299 when it hits stores in July), joining the likes of Sidney Crosby, John Tavares and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins at Reebok-CCM, which is looking to focus attention on CCM as its hockey brand.

Philippe Dube, president and CEO of Reebok-CCM Hockey, would not detail the length of the three prospects’ contracts but said such agreements usually were for two to three years, with the hope of turning it into a longterm relationship.

MacKinnon, who says he doesn’t mind being called Nate or Nathan, said it was his first endorsement deal.

He is used to the attention back in Halifax but says he likes being away from the spotlight.

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Bombers’ prospects getting chance at camp WINNIPEG — Max Hall is quick study.

He’s a CFL rookie but it hasn’t taken the former NFL player long to understand the importance of the quarterback in Canadian football as he tries to crack the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ roster as a backup to starter Buck Pierce.

“I’m not saying he’s not important in the NFL because he obviously is,” Hall said Thursday. “But there’s a little more emphasis on him in the CFL.” The former BYU star played six games for the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2010 but spent last season coaching at his alma mater. But that’s also where Bombers offensive coordinator Gary Crowton coached from 2001-2004.

Hall said his biggest adjustment in Canadian football is dealing with one less down.

“The key is having three downs instead of four, that’s the biggest difference,” Hall said. “Now you don’t have that one down in there to have an incomplete pass or to get stuffed on a run.

“Every single down you need to get positive yards and you need to put yourself in a situation on second down to convert. That’s the biggest difference and that’s why you must have a quarterback who’s smart, who can take of the football and go to the right spot.”

Both Hall and Chase Clement, the other new quarterback at rookie camp this week, believe they have what it takes to play in the CFL. The Bombers are giving Hall and Clement as well as current backup Justin Goltz plenty of chances to prove themselves.

Coach Tim Burke says all are getting equal time in practice. But that will change Sunday when training camp opens and Pierce and Goltz will likely start to get more reps as the team focuses on game preparations.

Winnipeg’s first exhibition game is June 12 at home to Toronto before the club opens the CFL season June 27 at Investors Group Field, its new sta-

dium, facing the Montreal Alouettes.

Hall, 27, and Clement, 26, were signed after the Bombers released backups Alex Brink and Joey Elliott. Neither Brink nor Elliott impressed last season when they took over after Pierce went down with a series of injuries.

The Bombers have decided to go with Pierce as their starter again. But finding a solid backup is a top priority given Pierce’s injury record.

Goltz, entering his fourth CFL season, looks like a good bet as the only veteran backup left. But nothing is carved in stone and both Hall and Clement are eager to get back on the field and start playing again.

“I had a great opportunity with the Cardinals, it didn’t last as long as I wanted it to, but I have a great opportunity here,” said Hall.

Clement is giving the CFL another shot after making a quick trip to Hamilton in 2009 and leaving after one practice. His main post-college experience was with the United Football League where he led the Las Vegas Locomotives to a championship in 2010.

“I’ve had a lot of success in college and a lot of success in professional football,” Clement said. “I feel like I’m very much comparable to anybody in this league.”

Burke is pleased with the progress both have shown in the short time he’s had them.

“I think they’re both doing a really good job,” he said. “They’re both learning the system, which is good.

“I think they’re both making good throws. They’re accurate. When they haven’t been it’s just because they didn’t make a quick enough decision.”

Burke also said both newcomers are picking up the Canadian game.

“I think they’ve adapted to the offensive part of it, which is the motion and all that,” he said. “I think it’s going to take a little bit more time to be able to understand what the defence is doing with all that motion.”

Tate back under centre for Stamps, but can he stay healthy?

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BY DAN RALPH THE CANADIAN PRESS Preparations for the 2013 CFL season are underway with the official start of training camp set for Sunday. Here are five storylines worth watching:

TATE BACK UNDER CENTRE FOR STAMPS The big question in Calgary is whether Stampeders starter Drew Tate can stay healthy.

The former Iowa star opened the 2012 campaign as the No. 1 quarterback but spent most of the regular season on the sideline with a shoulder dislocation before suffering a season-ending broken forearm in Calgary’s opening playoff win over Saskatchewan.

Although veteran Kevin Glenn led the Stampeders to a Grey Cup appearance versus Toronto, head coach/GM John Hufnagel ended any talk of a quarterback controversy by naming Tate the starter to open camp.

The six-foot, 192-pound Tate made three starts in 2012, completing 46-of-73 passes (73 per cent) for 570 yards and four TDs with three interceptions.

Should Tate struggle, Calgary has Glenn, sophomore Bo Levi Mitchell and newcomer Ryan Perrilloux on the depth chart.

MITCHELL EXPECTED WITH ARGOS Strengthening a decimated defensive line was an off-season priority for Toronto GM Jim Barker, with the departure of Armond Armstead (NFL’s New England Patriots), Adriano Belli (retired), Ron Flemons (released) and Ricky

Foley (Saskatchewan, free agent).

With only veteran tackle Kevin Huntley returning to the defending Grey Cup champions, Barker acquired former CFL all-star Khalif Mitchell from B.C. The controversial Mitchell, 28, who was suspended twice last season, initially balked at reporting to Toronto, but Barker has said he expects the six-footfive, 315-pound Mitchell in uniform Sunday when the Argos open camp. Mitchell was suspended for the first time last year for hyperextending the arm of Edmonton offensive lineman Simeon Rottier before receiving another ban and fine for derogatory tweets.

LIFE AFTER MARC TRESTMAN Dan Hawkins has big shoes to fill as the Montreal Alouettes head coach.

He replaces Marc Trestman, who led the club to a 59-31 regular-season record and two Grey Cup wins over five seasons before being named head coach of the NFL’s Chicago Bears.

Trestman was regarded as an offensive guru and a quarterback technician.

Alouettes veteran Anthony Calvillo flourished under Trestman, passing for more than 5,000 yards three times since 2008.

Fortunately for Hawkins, Calvillo returns for a 20th CFL campaign and longtime GM Jim Popp remains after garnering NFL interest this off-season.

NEW TEAM FOR GEROY SIMON After 14 CFL seasons, Geroy Simon is starting over.

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being acquired from the B.C. Lions this off-season.

Simon spent 12 seasons with B.C., helping the team win two Grey Cup titles and serving as the longtime face of the franchise.

But the 37-year-old was hampered by two hamstring injuries last year that limited him to just 54 catches for 700 yards and two TDs, the first time in 10 years Simon didn’t crack the 1,000-yard receiving plateau.

Already the CFL’s all-time receiving yards leader, Simon needs 29 catches to break Ben Cahoon’s all-time record (1,017).

If healthy, Simon gives the Riders a reliable veteran receiver with big-play ability to complement all-star slotback Weston Dressler, who had a team-high 94 catches for 1,206 yards and 13 TDs in 2012.

WILLIAMS’ UNCERTAIN CFL FUTURE Kent Austin begins his first season as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach, GM and football operations director with the mandate of getting the club back into the CFL playoffs.

The Ticats missed the post-season last year with a 6-12 record, which cost head coach/GM George Cortez his job after one season.

A bright spot for Hamilton was speedy receiver/kick-returner Chris Williams, who scored a clubrecord 17 TDs and was named the league’s top special-teams player. But Williams’ CFL future is in limbo as his agent tries to free him from his CFL deal to pursue NFL offers.

Williams isn’t expected in camp with the Ticats as his case is before an arbitrator.

Even if the decision goes in Hamilton’s favour, questions exist whether Williams will report, and if he does, when.

Als re-sign Whitaker just before camp opens MONTREAL — Running back Brandon Whitaker has re-signed with the Montreal Alouettes on a three-year deal.

The team made the announcement Thursday with training camp set to open on the weekend at Bishop’s University.

Despite suffering a season-ending knee injury last September, Whitaker led the team in all-purpose yards with 1,225 in just 10 starts.

He racked up 631 rushing yards on 123 carries with four rushing touchdowns.

The 27-year-old also became a favourite target for veteran quarterback Anthony Calvillo out of the backfield, amassing 49 receptions for 516 yards and five touchdowns through Week 12.

Whitaker tore the ACL in his right knee in a 28-17 win over Saskatchewan on Sept. 16 and missed the final two months of the season.

“We welcome Brandon back with open arms. We are as much interested in the well being of Brandon’s health as much as him returning to the playing field,” Alouettes’ general manager Jim Popp said in a statement.

“Approximately a week to 10 days ago Brandon was evaluated

thoroughly by our medical staff and also did a voluntary workout for our Head Therapist Rodney Sassi.

“He was impressive and showed that he is determined to return to the playing field and stay an Alouette.”

In 2011, Whitaker led the league in rushing yards with 1,381 on his

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Jay Haas has experienced unprecedented success in Iowa during his Champions Tour career.

If Haas can win a fourth Principal Charity Classic title in his first trip to the event’s new home, he’ll join a pair of Hall of Famers in the senior circuit record book.

Set to start play Friday at the Wakonda Club, Haas is trying to join Jack Nicklaus and Hale Irwin as the only Champions Tour players to win the same event four times, Haas won in 2007-08 and cruised to a five-stroke win at the Glen Oaks Country Club last spring. He’s fourth in the Charles Schwab Cup and tied for second last weekend in the Senior PGA Championship.

“I don’t think of it in those terms. I think of it as, ’What have you done for me this week?” Haas said.

“But the fact that I could join those two guys in anything that they did would be pretty special.”

But the 59-year-old Haas, the only player to win the Iowa tournament more than once, won’t enjoy the advantage of playing a course that suited him so well for years.

The Iowa event has moved to Wakonda after 12 years at Glen Oaks, save for a one-off trip to nearby Polk City in 2005. The 91-year-old course sits a couple miles from downtown Des Moines, and views of the capital city’s modest skyline abound through scores of hill-perched tee boxes, sloping fairways and mature trees.

Wakonda looks as much like upstate New York as the upper Plains, and the multiple changes in elevation won’t make it an easy walking course either.

Japan’s Koki Idoki, the surprise winner of the Senior PGA event in St. Louis last week, won’t play this weekend in Iowa. But nearly every other player who has made an impact on the Champions Tour this season will be in Des Moines.

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OTTAWA — Ottawa’s new CFL team will unveil its logo and nickname on June 8 at an event for seasonticket holders.

The club released a statement Thursday saying it would “confirm” its nickname after images of the name and logo leaked on a website called sportslogo. net.

The team, which is slated to begin playing next year at Frank Clair Stadium, will be called the Ottawa RedBlacks, according to the report.

Images on the website revealed a bolded “R” in front a of circular saw with the name RedBlacks underneath. The emphasis on the letter “R” is similar to the team’s previous CFL logo when they were known as the Ottawa Rough Riders.

The team also announced Thursday that Brock Sunderland has been appointed assistant general manager.

Sunderland spent six seasons with the NFL’s New York Jets in scouting roles, most recently covering college players in the western United States.

“I’m delighted to welcome Brock to our organization,” said team general manager Marcel Desjardins.

“He brings a wealth of experience and a proven eye for talent that will be invaluable to our organization as we evaluate players and build our team for the 2014 season.”

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Hockey NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs SECOND ROUND Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh (1) vs. Ottawa (7) (Pittsburgh wins series 4-1) Boston (4) vs. N.Y. Rangers (6) (Boston wins series 4-1) WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago (1) vs. Detroit (7) (Chicago wins series 4-3) Wednesday’s result Chicago 2 Detroit 1 (OT) Los Angeles (5) vs. San Jose (6) (Los Angeles wins series 4-3) THIRD ROUND Conference Finals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh (1) vs. Boston (4) Saturday’s game Boston at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Monday, Jun. 3 Boston at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Jun. 5 Pittsburgh at Boston, 6 p.m.

Friday, Jun. 7 Pittsburgh at Boston, 6 p.m.

Basketball Sunday, Jun. 9 x-Boston at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jun. 11 x-Pittsburgh at Boston, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Jun. 12 x-Boston at Pittsburgh, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago (1) vs. Los Angeles (5) Saturday’s game Los Angeles at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Sunday’s game Los Angeles at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, June 4 Chicago at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 6 Chicago at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 8 x-Los Angeles at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Monday, June 10 x-Chicago at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, June 12 x-Los Angeles at Chicago, TBD x — If necessary.

NHL 2013 Playoff Scoring leaders TORONTO — Unofficial 2013 National Hockey League playoff scoring leaders following Wednesday’s game: SCORING G A Pt Krejci, Bos 5 12 17 Malkin, Pgh 4 12 16 Letang, Pgh 3 13 16 Crosby, Pgh 7 8 15

Horton, Bos Iginla, Pgh Pavelski, SJ Zetterberg, Det Brassard, NYR Sharp, Chi Couture, SJ Hossa, Chi Chara, Bos Dupuis, Pgh Neal, Pgh Alfredsson, Ott Lucic, Bos M.Richards, LA J.Thornton, SJ Turris, Ott Brunner, Det Cleary, Det Kunitz, Pgh Datsyuk, Det Kane, Chi Marchand, Bos P.Martin, Pgh Keith, Chi

5 4 4 4 2 7 5 5 2 7 6 4 3 2 2 6 5 4 4 3 2 2 2 1

7 8 8 8 10 4 6 6 9 3 4 6 7 8 8 3 4 5 5 6 7 7 7 8

12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Updated Odds to Win 2012-13 Stanley Cup TEAM Pittsburgh Chicago Boston Los Angeles

CURRENT OPENING ODDS ODDS 6-5 6-1 5-2 11-1 4-1 9-1 5-1 10-1

Track and Field Central Alberta Track and Field Zone Championship Girls Junior 100m: 1. Mackenzie Ramsell, Inn, 12.43. 2. Chantel Park, Lac, 12.90. 3. Hailey Flexhaug, Del, 12.99.

200m: 1. Bretton Bowd, LT, 26.5. 2. Park, 27.11. 3.

Jerelle Bristol, Lac, 27.36.

400m: 1. Kayla Enders, WC, 1:06.32. 2. Chava Parmar, wet, 1:09.11. 3. Mattie Dewald, Lac, 1:10.21.

80m hurdles: 1. Flexhaug, 12.05. 2. Drew McKinlay, HH, 12.71. 3. Torey Lauber, Ryley, 14.42.

800m: 1. Haley Kitt, HH, 2:31.66. 2. Dina Iatrou, HH, 2:34.00. 3. Enders, 2:40.78.

1,500m: 1. Emily Lucas, Inn, 5:12.72. 2. Maddie Oxton, Wet, 5:14.84. 3. Kirsten Ramsay, Lac, 5:20.38.

3,000m: 1. Lucas, 10:59.50 (record, old 11:06.34).

2. Ramsay, 11:25.06. 3. Oxton, 11:28.12.

Long jump: 1. Ramsell, 5.33m (record, old 5.22).

2. Dacia Gramlick, WEH, 5.20. 3. Erika Pearson, HH, 4.62.

Triple jump: 1. Park, 10.42. 2. Flexhaug, 10.29. 3.

Paige Leek, Caro, 10.05.

High jump: 1. Katie Devereux, Con, 1.42. 2. Ramsell, 1.42. Kirsten Newsham, SV, 1.35.

Pole vault: 1. Oxton, 1.80. 2. Alyssa Hyink, Bent, 1.72.

Shot put: 1. Maddie PAttrerson, SV, 9.24. 2. Alex Debree, LAc, 8.29. 3. Alexis Brown, Cam, 8.16.

Discus: 1. Cassius Louis, Pon, 27.16. 2.Leek, 27.11. 3. Patterson, 24.64.

Javelin: 1. Leek, 31.55. 2. Savanna Spendiff, Bent, 30.16. 3. Newsham, 26.98.

4x100m relay: 1. Bowd, Cote, Keara Thomas, Ramsell, LT, 53.90. 2./ Bristol, Dewald, Park, Courtney Petrie, LAc, 54.87. 3. Brittany LAnge, Carmyn LArtsen, Enders, Leek, WC, 55.05.

Intermediate 100m: 1. Cassandra Vleeming, LT, 13.11. 2. Alycia Andersen, LT, 13.28. 3. Brynn Markowsky, Cam, 13.40.

200m: 1. Natasha Smallwood, Wet, 26.87. 2. Andersen, 27.84. 3. Hanna Delemont, HH, 27.95.

400m: 1. Smallwood, 1:04.17. 2. Brooke Harty, ND, 1:09.31. 3. Corey Garbutt, WEH, 1:10.05.

80m hurdles: 1. Celine Dewit, Cent, 13.02. 2.

Cassidy Siemasns, WC, 13.86. 3. Katlynn Kyle, ND, 14.08.

800m: 1. Smallwood, 2:33.28. 2. Jessica Oscar, St. Dom, 2:41.97. 3. Rivver Flewell, LT, 2:42.72.

1,500m: 1. Nagi Iida, RG, 5:43.59. 2. Emily Braun, NN, 5:512.51. 3. Emily Maplethorpe, Wet, 5:52.31.

3,000m: 1. Iida, 12:14.53. 2. Braun, 12:31.94. 3.

Flewell, 12:33.06.

Long jump: 1. Bryna Cline, LT, 4.82. 2. Vleeming, 4.65. 3. Mary Krause, Wet, 4.55.

Triple jump: 1. Cline, 9.80. 2. Delemont, 9.75. 3.

Kodi Betts, Bas, 9.19.

High jump: 1. Delemont, 1.57. 2.Meriah Wiart, GusW, 1.55. 3. Bailey Durie, Bas, 1.53.

Pole vault: 1. Krause, 1.80. 2. Emma Ripka, Wet, 1.80.

Shot put: 1. Aleisha Yews, RG, 9.95. 2. Betts, 8.51.

3. Mackenzie Myette, Con, 8.50.

Discus: 1. Wiart, 22.24. 2. Karley Regher, Koi, 22.17. 3. Shanese MacFadyen, Cent, 21.90.

Javelin: 1. Beth Fedor, Lac, 29.19. 2. Emily LysterSmith, Inn, 24.62. 3. Brooke Huebert, Tof, 24.42.

4x100m relay: 1. Andersen, Cline, Jodi Huston, Vleeming, LT, 53.55. 2. Markowsky, Michaela Klutz, Brooke Ferner, Lauren Feth, Cam, 56,40. 3. Kelsey Caine, Kaylie Der, HArty, Kyle, ND, 57.08.

Senior 100m: 1. Kendra Sorensen, ND, 12.84. 2. Chantelle Kent, WC, 12.93. 3. Jessica van Mulligen, HH, 12.98.

200m: 1. van Mulligen. 26.30. 2. Sorensen, 26.62.

3. Kent, 27.11.

400m: 1. van Mulligen, 1:01.37. 2. Robyn Hebert, Wet, 1:06.68. 3. Kaitlyn Lomas, St. Aug, 1:08.95.

80m hurdles: 1. Erin Seater, LT, 12.99. 2. Rachael

Sherban, HH, 13.42. 3. Sarah Ubels, Cent, 13.62.

800m: 1. Jordanna Cota, HH, 2:31.72. 2. Seater, 2:35.46. 3. Jenya Rust, Cam, 2:35.93.

1,500m: 1. Cota, 5:20.50. 2.Sefrah Daviduck, LT, 5:38.50. 3. Brianna Green, Pon, 5:42.37.

3,000m: 1. Cota, 11:08.25. 2. Daviduck, 12:04.50.

3. Green, 12:22.00.

Long jump: 1. Sadie Sorenson, Lac, 4.70. 2. Amy Lank, Pon, 4.64. 3. Sorensen, 4.56.

Triple jump: 1. Seater, 10.10. 2. Lank, 10.04. 3.

Kelsey Wiebe, HH, 10.02.

High jump: 1. Ubels, 1.55. 2. Seater, 1.45. 3.

Sherban, 1.40.

Pole vault: 1. Hebert, 1.72. 2. Christine Smith, Wet, 1.72.

Shot put: 1. Sorensen, 9.15. 2. Alex Hay, Wet, 9.04. 3. Ryelee Lang, Cent, 8.89.

Discus: 1. Lang, 26.21. 2. Michelle Chanminaraj, Koi, 25.07. 3. Freya Sturm, B Sac, 23.81.

Javelin: 1. Jen Wet, HH, 29.37. 2. Hally Weinrauch, Inn, 24.92 3. Katherine Espeleta, Wet, 24.19.

4x100m relay: 1. Kelsey Wiebe, van Mulligen, Sherban, Alora Pederson, HH, 53.87. 2. Allana Ell, Sierra Lyons, Teenie McBee, Kent, Lac, 54.62. 3.

Daviduck, Gertrude Nsala, Jordyn Saxton, Seater, LT, 55.14.

4x400m open relay: 1. Oxton, Parmar, Hebert, Smallwood, Wet, 4:27.44. 2. Cota, Sherban, Kitt, van Mulligen, 4:31.40. 3. Enders, Hyink, Kent, Ramsay, WC, 4:40.34.

Boys Junior 100m: 1. Brayden Pozyluzny, ND, 10.06 (record, old 11.12). 2. Nick Boomer, LT, 11.37. 3. Jesse Hagel, Lac, 11.67.

200m: 1. Pozyluzny, 22.68 (record, old 22.87). 2.

Boomer, 23.40. 3. Dylan Maggs, HL, 24.43.

400m: 1. David Erasmus, St. Th, 56.58. 2. Jordan Snopeck, Lac, 57.34. 3. Gunnar Johansson, LT, 57.99.

100m hurdles: 1. Ky McLachlin, HH, 14.81. 2. Cody Knight, Lac, 15.59. 3. Jacob Kungel, HL, 16.71.

800m: 1. Erasmus, 2:12.66. 2. Danton Davis, Cam, 2:13.878. 3. Gabe McGraw, Wain, 2:15.96.

1,500m: 1. Erasmus, 4:41.15. 2. Noah Mulzet, LT, 4:44.00. 3. Davis, 4:57.72.

3,000m: 1. Mulzet, 9:55.53. 2. Andrew Cernohorsky, ND, 10:34.94. 3. Ben Arychuck, WC, 10:55.25.

Long jump: 1. Posyluzny, 6.11. 2. Boomer, 5.71. 3.

Jaeden Norton, Wet, 5.52.

Triple jump: 1. Josh Bawtineheimer, HJC, 11.27.

2. Tyson Hueppelsheuser, Bent, 11.19. 3. Austin Munro, Bawlf, 11.14.

High jump: 1. Kai Poffenroth, Bent, 1.78. 2. Otto Mitchell, Wain, 1.72. 3. Carson ]Walker, HJC, 1.65.

Pole vault: 1. Hueppelsheuser, 2.72. 2. Ben Ripka, wet, 2.32. 3. Alex Toohey, Wet, 2.32.

Shot put: 1. Sebastian Dupuis, Wain, 11.61. 2.

Drayton Schwab, B Sac, 11.22. 3. Cole Nelson, Pon, 10.89.

Discus: 1. Aaron Rodtka, WC, 32.35. 2. Poffenroth, 31.76. 3. Posyluzny, 31.34.

Javelin: 1. Zach Stonehocker, Wain, 41.47. 2. Darcy Perkins, NN, 41.29. 3. Kava Waqatubu, Lac, 41.18.

4x100m relay: 1. Chris Haakonsen, Jesse Hagel, Knight, Snopeck, Lac, 47.96. 2. Riley Irwin, Justin Panter, Laine Thomas, Bobby McMann, Wain, 48.43. 3. Cernohorsky, Colin LaGrange, Posyluzny, Rodrigo Sanchez, 49.99.

Intermediate 100m: 1. Jonathon Allan, Eck, 11.52. 2. Michael Ioanidis, Corner, 11.54. 3. Cole Sugden, WC, 11.56.

200m: 1. Allan, 23.71. 2. Braden Deagle, WEH, 24.14. 3. Brendan O’Callahan, Wet, 24.39.

400m: 1. Sugden, 54.08. 2. Greg Chauvet, LT, 54.58. 3. Trent Hebert, Wet, 55.77.

100m hurdles: 1. Ryan Swier, CACHS, 14.08. 2.

Cody Domoney, LT, 14.33. 3. Kolton Hueppelsheuser, Bent, 15.02.

800m: 1. Derrick Evans, HH, 2:06.00. 2. Ty Wild-

cat, NN, 2:12.09. 3. Yannick van de Velde, Cent, 2:23.00.

1,500m: 1. Evans, 4:33.87. 2. Mitch Dore, ND, 4:39.46. 3. Ben Anderson, Wet, 4:45.41.

3,000m: 1. Dore, 10:01.25. 2. Berin Brand, Wet, 10:13.28. 3. Anderson, 10:24.75.

Long jump: 1. Clayton Wong, LT, 5.79. 2. Ian Vanderhoek, Cent, 5.75. 3. Braden Deagle, WEH, 5.68.

Triple jump: 1. Wong, 12.36. 2. Laine Thomas, Wain, 11.89. 3. Hueppelsheuser, 11.78.

High jump: 1. Trey McCartney, Tof, 1.80. 2. Jordan Sinnamon, SV, 1.80. 3. Allan, 1.75.

Pole vault: 1. Trent Hebert, Wet, 3.34. 2. Hueppelsheuser, 3.10.

Shot put: 1. Vanderhoek, 12.05. 2. Allan, 11.83. 3.

Danny Bergen, NN, 11.60.

Discus: 1. Jesse Holsworth, Cebnt, 33.30. 2. Tyler Newsham, SV, 31.77. 3. Daniel Upham, Ryley, 31.12.

Javelin: 1. Vanderhoek, 48.43. 2. Parker Fox, Del, 40.38. 3. Newsham, 39.38.

4x100m relay: 1. Allan, Sugden, Carson Schneider, Vanderhoek, CACHS, 46.81. 2. Brody Todd, O’Callahan, Hebert, Ben Jensen, Wet, 47.12. 3.

Domoney, Chauvet, Tanner Shapka, Wong, LT, 48.84.

Senior 100m: 1. Spencer Yeats, LT, 11.30. 2. Luke Bramfield, Cam, 11.43. 3. Elijah Aportadera, Wet, 11.44.

200m: 1. Yeats, 23.40. 2. Cole Seguin, LT, 23.87. 3.

Alex Andres, 24.68.

400m: 1. Tyler Smith, Wet, 50.05 (record, old 51:05). Garrett Engert, LT, 51.96. 3. Matt van Mulligen, HH, 53.43.

100m hurdles: 1. Austin Ganson, Lac 14.08 (record, old 14.27). 2. Dallin Higham, LT, 14.90. 3.

Jake Vermeer, Bawlf, 16.46.

800m: 1. Smith, 1:57.78. 2. van Mulligen, 2:01.46.

3. Nic Grant, Pon, 2:13.18.

1,500m: 1. Smith, 4:32.37. 2. Andres, 4:36.81. 3.

Matthew Cernohorsky, ND, 4:37.28.

3,000m: 1. Andres, 9:40.59. 2. Cernohorsky, 9:42.87.

Long jump: 1. Aportadera, 6.13. 2. Johnny Smook, Tof, 5.99. 3. Scott Pearson, HH, 5.69.

Triple jump: 1. Smook, 12.15. 2. Aden Smaill, HJC, 12.07. 3. Aportadera, 11.45.

High jump: 1. Brett Jakubec, Viking, 1.77. 2. Higham, 1.75. 3. Brad Link, Cent, 1.75.

Pole vault: 1. Rick Leubke, Wet, 2.82. 2. Chris Robie, Bent, 2.06.

Shot put: 1. Kenton Rodney, Pon, 12.81. 2. Dallas Hancox, HH, 12.73. 3. Tyler Dietrich, for, 11.96.

Discus: 1. Ryan Graff, Bas, 37.95. 2. Rodney, 35.16. 3. Mayo Santos, Koi, 22.97.

Javelin: 1. Hancox, 43.54. 2. Derek Scheler, Vik, 43.32. 3. Ian McLellan, LT, 40.76.

4x100m relay: 1. Joel Bishop, Lerence Estorninos, Moody Elwenni, Aportadera, Wet, 46.42. 2. Hancox, Brayden Bauer, Alan Li, Pearson, HH, 48.34. 3.

Luke Bramfield, Reid Creasy, Tyler Helgland, Hiro Yamashiro, Cam, 49.34.

4x400m open relay: 1. Andrews, O’Callahan, Trent Hebert, Smith, Wet, 3:39.09. 2. Chauvet, Mulzet, Engert, Yeats, Seguin, LT, 3:48.81. 3.Evans, Dyck, Mahoro Higuchi, van Mulligen, HH, 3:53.02.

Legend: Bas — Bashaw. Bent — Bentley. B Sac — Blessed Sacrament, Wainwright. CACHS — Central Alberta Christian, Lacombe. Cam — Camrose. Caro — Caroline. Cent — Central, Lacombe.

Con — Consort. Del — Delburne. Eck — Eckville.

For — Forestburg. GusW — Gus Wetter, Castor.

HJC — H.J. Cody, Sylvan Lake. HH — Hunting Hills. Inn — Innisfail. Koi — Koinonia Christian, Red Deer. Lac — Lacombe. LT — Lindsay Thurber.

ND — Notre Dame. NN — New Norway. Pon — Ponoka. RG — River Glen. St. Aug — St. Augustine, Ponoka. St. Dom — St. Dominic, Rocky. St. Th — St. Thomas Aquinas, Provost. SV — Spruce View.

Tof — Tofield. Vik — Viking. Wain — Wainwright.

WC — West Central, Rocky. WEH — William E Hay, Stettler. Wet — Wetaskiwin.

Alberta Downs Entries Saturday Post time: 1:15 p.m.

First Pace, purse $3,400 (EX, PX, SF, TR).

1 Blue Star Cavalier (T. Redwood) 2 Arctic Muscles (J. Campbell) 3 Blasty Cam (G. Clark) 4 Jellos Fellow (P. Davies) 5 Timely Promise (W. Tainsh Jr) 6 Modern Cowboy (To Be Announced) 7 Hesacamcracker (R. Hennessy) 8 Da Terror (T. Cullen) 9 Artability (Q. Schneider) ae Whosurhero (J. Jungquist) Second Pace, purse $4,500 (DD, EX, SF, TR).

1 Cool Treasure (J. Jungquist) 2 Clearly Best (K. Dressler) 3 Keystone Maddie (P. Giesbrecht) 4 Jennas Ideal (T. Cullen) 5 Kumu (G. Hudon) 6 Blazing By (J. Campbell) Third Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Mackenzie Seelster (P. Giesbrecht) 2 Rango (T. Redwood) 3 My Promise To You (J. Gray) 4 Kg Super Sonic (J. Campbell) 5 Stiletto Spur (K. Clark) 6 Lakers R Electric (Q. Schneider) 7 Outlawclassichrome (J. Marino) 8 Payoff (W. Tainsh Jr) 9 Frees B (T. Cullen) ae Hey Scoob (J. Campbell) Fourth Pace, purse $4,000 (EX, SF, TR, W4).

1 Only For Awile (J. Marino) 2 Wigesjet (J. Chappell) 3 Sharkys Law (R. Hennessy)

BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Named George Brett interim hitting coach and Pedro Grifol interim special assignment coach.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Placed INF Trevor Plouffe on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 29. Recalled INF Chris Colabello from Rochester (IL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES—Designated 3B Juan Francisco for assignment.

CHICAGO CUBS—Recalled RHP Zach Putnam up Iowa (PCL). Assigned RHP Alex Burnett to Iowa.

Transferred RHP Kyuji Fujikawa to the 60-day DL. LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Placed OF Matt Kemp on the 15-day DL. Recalled C Tim Federowicz from Albuquerque (PCL). Reinstated RHP Stephen Fife from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Albuquerque.

NEW YORK METS—Placed INF Ruben Tejada on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of INF Omar Quintanilla from Las Vegas (PCL). Transferred RHP Frank Francisco to the 60-day DL. SAN DIEGO PADRES—Recalled RHP Nick Vincent from Tucson (PCL). Optioned RHP Anthony Bass to Tucson.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Selected the contract of RHP Michael Wacha from Memphis (PCL). Optioned RHP Michael Blazek to Memphis. Tranferred LHP Jaime Garcia to the 60-day DL. American Association WICHITA WINGNUTS—Traded LHP Kristhiam Linares to Amarillo for a player to be named.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS—Reinstated OF Ben Broussard to the active list. Placed OF Ray Navarrete, LHP Dontrelle Willis and LHP Matt Way on the inactive list.

SUGAR LAND SKEETERS—Announced INF Chase Lambin has signed with Kansas City (AL).

EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami (1) vs. Indiana (3) (Miami leads series 3-2) Thursday’s result Miami 90 Indiana 79 Tuesday’s result Indiana 99 Miami 92 Sunday’s result Miami 114 Indiana 96

WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio (2) vs. Memphis (5) (San Antonio wins series 4-0) Monday’s result San Antonio 93 Memphis 86 Saturday’s result San Antonio 104 Memphis 93 (OT) x — If necessary.

Baseball Boston New York Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto

American League East Division W L Pct 33 22 .600 30 23 .566 30 24 .556 29 24 .547 23 31 .426

GB — 2 2 1/2 3 9 1/2

Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota Kansas City

Central Division W L Pct 29 23 .558 29 24 .547 24 27 .471 23 28 .451 21 29 .420

GB — 1/2 4 1/2 5 1/2 7

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Houston

West Division W L Pct 33 20 .623 31 24 .564 25 29 .463 23 31 .426 17 37 .315

GB — 3 8 1/2 10 1/2 16 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Chicago Cubs 9, Chicago White Sox 3 Philadelphia 4, Boston 3 Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 3 N.Y. Mets 9, N.Y. Yankees 4 Baltimore 9, Washington 6 Tampa Bay 3, Miami 1 Toronto 3, Atlanta 0 Arizona at Texas, ppd., rain Minnesota 4, Milwaukee 1 St. Louis 5, Kansas City 3 Houston 6, Colorado 3 L.A. Angels 4, L.A. Dodgers 3 San Diego 3, Seattle 2, 10 innings Oakland 9, San Francisco 6

4 Pureform Olympia (R. Schneider) 5 Chatter Box (J. Campbell) 6 Bettor Dreams (J. Jungquist) 7 Shes A Ladro (J. Gagne) Fifth Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Hes Country (Q. Schneider) 2 Art By Dylan (K. Hoerdt) 3 Psymadre (B. Piwniuk) 4 Too Young Man (G. Hudon) 5 Notacent Tobemade (G. Schedlosky) 6 Modern Man (C. Brown) 7 Steveofdestruction (J. Campbell) 8 Blue Star Ruler (J. Marino) 9 Domino Theory (W. Tainsh Jr) ae Ok Excalibur (T. Cullen) Sixth Pace, purse $20,000 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Emotions Run Wild (K. Hoerdt) 2 Skade (J. Campbell) 3 Freedoms Treasure (W. Tainsh Jr) 4 American Passion (G. Hudon) 5 Kiss My Crouper (R. Grundy) 6 Wish I Was (K. Clark) 7 Outlawlookslikrain (C. Kolthammer) 8 Kim Chee (T. Redwood) 9 Va Va Varoom (R. Hennessy) 10 Fire Dance (D. Monkman Jr) Seventh Pace, purse $20,000 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Beach Baby (B. Clark) 2 Contesta Hanover (K. Clark) 3 Cenalta Fireworks (R. Goulet) 4 Shadow Time (J. Marino) 5 Crackers Hot Shot (W. Tainsh Jr) 6 Isle Of Shoals (C. Kolthammer) 7 Barona Lilac (K. Hoerdt) 8 Outlawcherishafool (C. Kolthammer) 9 Sheezgotdawoogies (G. Hudon)

10 Artprize (J. Campbell) Eighth Pace, purse $3,600 (EX, SF, TR, W3).

1 Crafty Cracker (W. Tainsh Jr) 2 Tu Wong Fu (J. Chappell) 3 Ruths Shadylady (J. Jungquist) 4 Arctic Pine (J. Gray) 5 Whitehouse Secret (P. Davies) 6 Carro Avro (T. Redwood) 7 Cinderella Smiles (P. Giesbrecht) 8 Hollywood Monroe (G. Hudon) 9 Tequila Boom Boom (R. Hennessy) ae Glitteronthebeach (T. Cullen) Ninth Pace, purse $6,000 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Kg Art Dreamer (G. Hudon) 2 Outlawtowerinferno (R. Hennessy) 3 Steve O (J. Gagne) 4 Outlaw Highvoltage (P. Giesbrecht) 5 Strikes N Charges (D. Lupul) 6 Outlawdangruswatrs (K. Hoerdt) 7 Cenalta Power (R. Grundy) 8 Arroway (J. Gray) 9 Greek Ruler (J. Chappell) ae Balzac Billy (J. Jungquist) Tenth Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Arctic Flame (J. Gray) 2 Outlaw Like A Lady (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Im The Reason (J. Marino) 4 Major Ziggy (P. Davies) 5 Intrepid Kate (K. Hoerdt) 6 Caracas (T. Redwood) 7 Alashazam (J. Campbell) 8 No Limit For Mjjz (P. Giesbrecht) 9 Sharon Blew Bye (Q. Schneider) ae G I Joan (K. Clark)

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS—Released RHP Brandon Moore.

NEWARK BEARS—Signed RHP David Dinelli.

QUEBEC CAPITALES—Signed RHP Julian Sampson.

BUFFALO SABRES—Signed F Colin Jacobs to a three-year contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS—Signed D Alexei Marchenko to a three-year entry-level contract. Assigned F Joakim Andersson, F Gustav Nyquist and G Jordan Pearce to Grand Rapids (AHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS—Agreed to terms with D Robyn Regehr on a two-year contract extension.

MONTREAL CANADIENS—Signed F Tim Bozon to a three-year contract.

WINNIPEG JETS—Announced a new partnership with the Ontario Reign as their ECHL affiliate for the 2013-14 season.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA—Fined Miami F LeBron James, Indiana F David West and Indiana G Lance Stephenson $5,000 each for violating the league’s anti-flopping policy in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS—Signed FB Patrick DiMarco.

BUFFALO BILLS—Signed WR DeMarco Sampson.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed LB Tommy Smith. Waived WR Perez Ashford.

DETROIT LIONS—Signed RB Montell Owens.

GREEN BAY PACKERS—Signed RB Eddie Lacy.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Signed LB Kyle Bosworth and TE Chase Clement.

NEW YORK JETS—Placed QB David Garrard on the reserve-retired list. Signed WR Ben Obomanu.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Signed CB Tharold Simon and OT Michael Bowie.

Canadian Football League OTTAWA—Named Brock Sunderland assistant general manager.

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS—OL Corey Watman, OL Matt Vonk, OL Eric Armitage, WR Alex Anthony, DL Levi Steinhauer, FB Spencer Moore and LB Thomas Spoletini.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

SOCCER Major League Soccer CHIVAS USA—Named Sacha van der Most interim coach.

NEW YORK RED BULLS—Signed D Matt Miazga.

National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC—Called up D-F Rachel Breton and F Danielle Schulmann from Jersey Blues FC (WPSL).

COLLEGE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE—Announceed the addition East Tennessee, Mercer and VMI to the league, beginning July 2014.

CUMBERLAND—Named Kyle Smith men’s soccer coach.

HAMLINE—Named Alex Focke men’s assistant basketball coach.

MONTANA WESTERN—Named B.J. Robertson football coach.

QUINNIPIAC—Named Suzy Whaley volunteer women’s golf coach.

RICHMOND—Named Danielle Bell and Natalie Lewis women’s assistant basketball coaches.

TROY—Named Billy Begley men’s basketball assistant coach, Mike Worley director of operations and Mike Moynihan video co-ordinator.

St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago Milwaukee

W 35 34 33 22 19

L 17 20 21 30 33

Pct .673 .630 .611 .423 .365

Arizona San Francisco Colorado San Diego Los Angeles

West Division W L Pct 30 23 .566 29 25 .537 28 26 .519 24 29 .453 22 30 .423

GB — 2 3 13 16 GB — 1 1/2 2 1/2 6 7 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Chicago Cubs 9, Chicago White Sox 3 Philadelphia 4, Boston 3 Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 3 N.Y. Mets 9, N.Y. Yankees 4 Baltimore 9, Washington 6 Tampa Bay 3, Miami 1 Toronto 3, Atlanta 0 Arizona at Texas, ppd., rain Minnesota 4, Milwaukee 1 St. Louis 5, Kansas City 3 Houston 6, Colorado 3 L.A. Angels 4, L.A. Dodgers 3 San Diego 3, Seattle 2, 10 innings Oakland 9, San Francisco 6 Thursday’s Games Texas 9, Arizona 5 Chicago Cubs 8, Chicago White Sox 3 Seattle 7, San Diego 1 San Francisco 5, Oakland 2 Boston 9, Philadelphia 2 Cleveland 7, Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh 1, Detroit 0, 11 innings N.Y. Mets 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 Baltimore 2, Washington 0 Tampa Bay 5, Miami 2 Atlanta 11, Toronto 3 Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 6 Kansas City at St. Louis, Late Houston 7, Colorado 5 L.A. Angels 3, L.A. Dodgers 2

Thursday’s Games Texas 9, Arizona 5 Chicago Cubs 8, Chicago White Sox 3 Seattle 7, San Diego 1 San Francisco 5, Oakland 2 Boston 9, Philadelphia 2 Cleveland 7, Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh 1, Detroit 0, 11 innings N.Y. Mets 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 Baltimore 2, Washington 0 Tampa Bay 5, Miami 2 Atlanta 11, Toronto 3 Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 6 Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Houston 7, Colorado 5 L.A. Angels 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Friday’s Games Boston (Lester 6-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-4), 5:05 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 7-0) at Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (M.Moore 8-0) at Cleveland (Kluber 3-3), 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City (W.Davis 3-4) at Texas (D.Holland 4-2), 6:05 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 5-1) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 3-5), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Axelrod 3-3) at Oakland (Colon 5-2), 8:05 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 1-2) at L.A. Angels (Hanson 2-1), 8:05 p.m.

Toronto (Jenkins 1-0) at San Diego (Marquis 6-2), 8:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Arizona (Miley 3-4) at Chicago Cubs (Garza 0-0), 12:20 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 2-0) at Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 6-2), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 3-5) at Philadelphia (Hamels 1-8), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Marcum 0-5) at Miami (Turner 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 3-5) at Atlanta (Teheran 3-1), 5:30 p.m.

San Francisco (M.Cain 4-2) at St. Louis (S.Miller 5-3), 6:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 5-3) at Colorado (Garland 3-6), 6:40 p.m.

Toronto (Jenkins 1-0) at San Diego (Marquis 6-2), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Miami, 2:10 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago Cubs, 5:15 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 5:15 p.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 5:15 p.m.

Toronto at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Detroit at Baltimore, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Texas, 2:05 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:15 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Toronto at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

Toronto at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m.

Detroit at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Toronto at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Segura Mil 51 204 30 73 .358 YMolina StL 50 186 21 66 .355 Votto Cin 54 203 44 70 .345 Goldschmidt Ari 52 190 34 64 .337 Tulowitzki Col 49 173 30 58 .335 Scutaro SF 49 200 30 66 .330 AdGonzalez LAD 49 174 18 57 .328 CGomez Mil 51 190 29 62 .326 FFreeman Atl 40 157 26 49 .312 Craig StL 50 196 25 61 .311 Home Runs JUpton, Atlanta, 14; DBrown, Philadelphia, 13; CGonzalez, Colorado, 13; Beltran, St. Louis, 12; Gattis, Atlanta, 12; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 12; Harper, Washington, 12; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 12.

Runs Batted In Phillips, Cincinnati, 43; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 43; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 41.

Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 32 21 .604 27 27 .500 26 28 .481 22 29 .431 13 41 .241

GB — 5 1/2 6 1/2 9 19 1/2

Central Division

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions

Saturday, Jun. 1 Miami at Indiana, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Jun. 3 x-Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

NBA Playoffs THIRD ROUND Conference Finals (Best-of-7)

RED DEER RIGGERS The Red Deer Riggers lost their first game of the season after a late game rally by the Parkland White Sox. The Riggers were on the road Thursday night and dropped a 4-2 decision to the White Sox in Spruce Grove.

Joel Peterman picked up the loss for the Riggers who came in relief for Davin Gulbransen

who gave up two runs, both unearned in four innings of work.

Peterman gave up two runs on two hits in two innings of work in the eigth-inning game.

The Riggers’ Shane Court went three-for-threeat the plate with two doubles while Kevin Curran also had a pair of hits.

The Riggers next game will be in Edmonton on Monday night against the Confederation Cubs.

Minor Baseball Sutter Fund Rockies 3 ACE Truck Rentals Giants 3 D&M Align & Brake Padres 1

Red Deer Minor Baseball Mosquito League Bettensons Orioles Delburne Dbacks AB Industrial Cubs RD Advocate Twins RD Overdoor Angels

W 6 5 4 4 4

L 2 2 3 4 4

Pts 12 10 8 8 8

5 4 7

6 6 2

Scores Wednesday Dbacks 13 Rockies 4 Angels 12 Padres 3 Twins 5 Orioles 3 Innisfail (2) 5 Giants 1

Soccer Chivas USA 3 7 2 11 13 24 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF New York 7 4 4 25 22 Montreal 7 2 2 23 20 Sporting KC 6 4 4 22 17 Houston 6 4 3 21 18 Philadelphia 5 5 3 18 18 Columbus 4 4 4 16 15 New England 4 4 4 16 10 Chicago 2 7 2 8 7 Toronto FC 1 7 4 7 11 D.C. 1 9 2 5 6

GA 17 14 11 13 23 12 9 17 18 22

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF FC Dallas 8 2 3 27 21 Portland 5 1 7 22 22 Real Salt Lake 6 5 3 21 18 Los Angeles 6 4 2 20 21 Colorado 5 4 4 19 13 Seattle 4 4 3 15 14 San Jose 3 5 6 15 13 Vancouver 3 4 4 13 14

GA 15 14 15 10 10 13 20 16

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at Toronto FC, 4 p.m.

Vancouver at New York, 5 p.m.

Houston at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Montreal at Sporting Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Real Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Seattle FC at Chivas USA, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Los Angeles at New England, 2:30 p.m.

D.C. United at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Wednesday, June 5 Columbus at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 8 D.C. United at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Real Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Seattle FC, 8:30 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL RUGBY The Central Alberta High School Rugby League finals will be between Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame.

The girls’ final goes Monday at 7 a.m. with the boys on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Both at Titans Park.

The winners advance to the provincials, June 7-8 in Lethbridge.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 31, 2013 B7

Red Wings feel Crighton winner Quinlan spurns CFL for coaching job at McMaster the sting after loss to Hawks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

GM DISAPPOINTED TEAM COULDN’T GET ONE MORE WIN TO REACH FINAL FOUR

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders have their entire 2013 draft class under contract.

The Riders announced Thursday they’ve signed all seven draft picks, including offensive lineman Corey Watman, who they took fourth overall in the 2013 CFL draft.

Also signing were offensive linemen Matt Vonk (fifth round) and Eric Armitage (seventh round), receiver Alex Anthony (fifth round), defensive lineman Levi Steinhauer (fifth round), fullback Spencer Moore (fifth round) and linebacker Thomas Spoletini (sixth round).

team as a quarterback. Only last week, Popp lauded the prospect’s deep passing ability during a precamp conference call.

Montreal’s starter is 40-yearold Anthony Calvillo and the club signed veteran Quinton Porter to be the backup. They also have third-stringer Josh Neiswander as last year’s backup Adrian McPherson is no longer with the club.

Popp said he will have to sign another quarterback before camp, which opens Sunday at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Que. Quinlan and Acadia quarterback Kyle Graves attended Montreal’s camp last year but both were cut.

The Alouettes also announced David Messier, former media relations chief for the InterBox boxing promotion company, has been hired as director of communications and branding.

“It’s very challenging sometimes to go into a draft and get guys not only picked in the right spots but get them to sign,” said Riders GM Brendan Taman.

“I think if you can get them all signed it’s really good and we were able to do that.”

The Riders also signed quarterback Tino Sunseri, a rookie out of the University of Pittsburgh. Taman said of the seven draft picks signed, he figured two or three have a legitimate shot at making the CFL team’s roster.

RED DEER & DISTRICT BRANCH

CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR (COORDINATE VOLUNTEERS FOR ANNUAL DOOR-TO-DOOR CAMPAIGN) START DATE: July 8th - Dec. 13, 2013 23 Week Contract Position HOURS PER WEEK: 35 hr week - flexible hours WAGE: $16.00 per hour Complimentary Parking Pass - Must have good telephone manners - Time Management Skills - Able to supervise Telephone Recruiters - Be neat in appearance - Must be motivated - Computer Knowledge would be an asset - Police record check mandatory - First Aid Certificate an asset Deadline for Resume - June 14, 2013 Or drop off: #6-5015 - 48th St. RED DEER, AB T4N 1S9

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Rocky Mountain House Society for Persons with Disabilities

Executive Director COPE, Rocky Mountain House Society for Persons with Disabilities, a registered charity, accredited agency for over 35 years supporting persons with developmental disabilities is currently seeking an individual with strong leadership, governance, human resources, ¿nancial management and communication skills to lead the agency. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will have an undergraduate degree in business administration or the humanities, with solid experience in an upper management position. Demonstrated leadership abilities, combined with excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills are required for this rewarding position. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in working with persons with developmental disabilities and/or the public sector.

Compensation: Competitive wages negotiable with experience and a competitive bene¿t package Closing Date: June 6, 2013 Submit resumes to: Laurel Ponich and Lynn MacDonald COPE Rocky Mountain House Society for Persons with Disabilities PO Box 1120, Rocky Mountain House, AB T4T 1A8 Phone: 403-845-4080 x. 110 Fax: 403-845-6951 lponich@rockycope.ca

Doran Stewart Oilfield Services, an oilfield construction & maintenance company offers a competitive salary with benefits for the following position, in the Rocky Mountain House area:

QUALITY CONTROL SUPERVISOR Doran Stewart Oilfield Services (DSOS) desires to produce and deliver quality goods and services that satisfy customer’s needs and meet codes as regulated by all governing authorities. In order to achieve these goals DSOS has quality assurance and quality control programs in place. The DSOS Quality Control Supervisor works as a part of the QC Department to lead, organize and oversee quality-related programs, policies and procedures within the Rocky Mountain House Operation Center.

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Responsibilities within the Rocky Mountain House Operation Center include: • Coordinating activities of workers engaged in inspecting incoming materials, work being done on steel pipeline components and finished fabricated products to ensure adherence to: governing codes, company quality standards and customer specifications • Reviewing customer contracts to ensure requirements and responsibilities are adequately defined and documented prior to the commencement of work • Distributing Isometric drawings and procedures to engineering, production control, and inspection work stations • Inspecting various pipeline & facility components and advising technicians of: defects, non-conformances and any adjustments needed to meet quality standards and specifications • Conferring with customer representative to resolve complaints and executing an acceptable corrective action • Notifying suppliers and subcontractors of any non-conformance or unacceptable parts received • Conferring with management in order to determine customer requirements and whether production processes are capable of meeting those requirements • Maintaining critical records and documents in accordance with Code and contract requirements related to quality assurance • Work the QC department to design and implement procedures necessary to achieve quality results in the production processes • Perform other non QC related duties as assigned by management such as: assisting with estimating for bids, safety documentation as it may relate to QA/ QC,

Rocky Mountain House Society for Persons with Disabilities

Program Coordinator COPE is a certified not for profit agency providing residential, employment, community access and independent living supports for persons with disabilities in and around Rocky Mountain House. At COPE, we believe that through team work and cooperation, we will strive to enhance the quality of life for all Persons served.

This position of Program Coordinator acts as part of the Management Team. Reporting directly to the Executive Director this position entails the development and delivery of programs and services to meet individual needs in residential and day programs, as well as ensuring established budgets are followed. By utilizing your leadership and supervisory skills you will assist in training, developing and evaluating staff. You will use your community disability studies or highly related experience and/or education to ensure individual services plans are developed and implemented.

The successful applicant will: • Demonstrate excellent communication, self-motivation & time management skills • Possess ABSA & CSA training, background in trades such as welding/pipefitting.

• Knowledge and experience in use of current quality standards, continuous improvement techniques and auditing processes • Experience in the use of Acorn Pipe Software Program • Work well independently & in a team environment • Be prepared to do on site field work, as required • CWB inspector credentials would be an asset Compensation to be determined based on previous experience, education and required training.

COPE offers a competitive wage and benefit package.

Closing Date: June 6, 2013

Deadline for Applications: June 4, 2013.

Please forward your resume to:

Linda van Son , Director, Corporate Services Doran Stewart Oilfield Services Box 1750, Rocky Mountain House, AB T4T 1B3 Email: mailbox@doranstewart.com Fax: 403-845-2365 Website: www.doranstewart.com

Please Mail, Fax, or Email a resume and cover letter to: Linda Bozman, Human Resources Manager COPE Rocky Mountain House Society for Persons with Disabilities PO Box 1120, Rocky Mountain House, AB T4T 1A8 Phone: 403-845-4080 ext.102, Fax: 403-845-6951 Email: lbozman@rockycope.ca

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DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings rallied to extend their postseason streak to 22, the longest in North American professional sports.

They were within a win of making an improbable appearance in the Western Conference finals.

Detroit, though, failed to finish off Chicago after taking a 3-1 series lead, losing three straight, including a 2-1 overtime loss in Game 7 against the Blackhawks on Wednesday night.

“It stings,” Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said Thursday.

“Everybody in our organization is down because we had a great chance to get to the final four.

But give Chicago credit because they got it done and we didn’t.”

Holland said he has mixed emotions about the year. He is disappointed Detroit couldn’t win one more game, perhaps in Game 6 when it had a third-period lead at home, to advance for a second time this postseason. Holland is encouraged, though, by how well the team’s veterans led, and the ways its inexperienced players improved during a rebuilding season.

“We have a lot of pieces in place, enough to beat the second-seeded Anaheim Ducks and to be up 3-1 on the top team in the league,” he said.

“There are a lot of good things going on, but we want to get further than Game 7 in the second round.”

The Red Wings hope to get past the second round next year for the first time since 2009 — when they were a win away from repeating as Stanley Cup champions — by agreeing to win-win deals with Damien Brunner, Valtteri Filppula, Daniel Cleary and Drew Miller before they hit the market as unrestricted free agents.

“We had teams inquiring about some of them at the trade deadline, but we made the decision to keep them and see how far they could go,” Holland said. “Now, we’d like to re-sign them if their finances fit in with our finances.”

As soon as July 5, Holland hopes he can sign Pavel Datsyuk to a new contract so that next season isn’t the final one on the superstar’s deal.

“We’re going to talk to Pav’s agent in a while because we would like to get an extension done,” Holland said “But we’ll see because we’re in a cap world.”

It won’t cost the franchise as much to re-sign restricted free agents Gustav Nyquist, Joakim Andersson, Brendan Smith and Jakub Kindl.

“We want them back, without a doubt,” Holland said A year after swinging and missing in attempts to sign Ryan Suter and Zach Parise, Holland doesn’t plan to even attempt to make a splash this summer in free agency.

“There are no quick fixes and free agency isn’t the answer,” Holland said. “It is just a tool to get finishing touches, but we’ll explore trades and we’ll keep an eye on players that are bought out of their contracts.”

The Red Wings are counting on the return of three key forwards — Darren Helm, Mikael Samuelsson and Todd Bertuzzi —- after they combined to play just 12 games during the regular season because of injuries. They also lost rookie defenceman Danny DeKeyser, who coach Mike Babcock credited with helping them make the playoffs, because of a broken thumb in the first round.

In all, Detroit’s injured players combined to miss 243 games during the regular season and 34 in the playoffs.

“We were No. 1 in the league in man-games lost due to injury and the depth of our organization allowed us to stay afloat,” Holland said. “If we only add Helm and DeKeyser, we’re a little better, but we want to do more than that if we can to get a lot better.”

Goaltender Jimmy Howard was healthy enough to play 42 of 48 games in the lockoutshortened season.

He started all 14 playoff games, and did enough to earn a sixyear, $31.8 million contract signed in April to stay with the franchise that drafted him a decade ago.

Howard has high hopes for the future.

“There’s a lot of great things you can take out of this season,” Howard told reporters in Chicago. “A lot of guys stepped up for us. The guys have a lot of good experience here moving forward and we’re moving in the right direction.”

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MONTREAL — Hec Crighton Trophy winner Kyle Quinlan has opted for a coaching job at McMaster University rather than take a shot at playing quarterback in the CFL. Montreal Alouettes general manager Jim Popp said Thursday that Quinlan, who signed a threeyear contract in December, will not attend training camp.

Agent Darren Gill said the quarterback has taken an unspecified coaching job at McMaster University.

That was news to Popp.

“He just informed us he wasn’t going to play,” Popp said. “He gave us some reasons outside of football.

“We said the door was open if he ever changed his mind.”

Asked what reasons were given,

the GM said “only he can answer that.”

Quinlan, 24, was not immediately available for comment.

The six-foot-three quarterback threw 19 touchdown passes to lead McMaster to an 8-0 record last season before losing to Laval in the Vanier Cup. The Woodslee, Ont., native earned the Crighton Trophy as Canadian university football’s top player and was named CIS male athlete of the year.

Popp said Quinlan had made his travel plans to Montreal and seemed eager to attend camp only two weeks ago, but “all of a sudden, he changed his mind.”

Canadian quarterbacks are rare in the CFL, and those who are drafted are often switched to other positions.

But the Alouettes wanted to give Quinlan a chance to make the

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Lizette Salas is quickly emerging as the United States’ best-kept secret on the LPGA Tour.

While the 23-yearold Californian is winless since joining the tour last year, Salas has jumped all the way No. 18 in the women’s world ranking. This year alone, she has four top-10 finishes, is ranked No. 5 with a 70.0 scoring average and has earnings of $382,440, seventh best on tour. If she keeps it up, she will soon be in Colorado on the U.S. Solheim Cup team.

Not bad someone who grew up playing softball, basketball and volleyball, and only had time to learn golf on weekends. In fact, she picked up her tour card by winning a nine-person playoff for the final spot at qualifying school.

“I think what’s different this year is my mentality,” Salas said Thursday afternoon, a day before teeing off in the $1.5 million ShopRite LPGA Classic outside Atlantic City. “I am a lot more confident than I was last year when I was getting my feet wet and trying to see what worked for me out there when it was trial and error.”

The changes late last year weren’t minor.

Salsa hired a new coach (Jim Gormley), changed her caddie (Greg Puga) and got new equipment.

“It was a big chance and a big risk,” Salas said. “I had my best finish with a ninth in Malaysia and I think that was the spark that carried my confidence from last year into this year. I am just having a lot more fun this year.”

Salsa also has learned to put herself into contention most weeks. She has been in the top 20 in seven of 10 events, including a loss in a playoff to Suzann Pettersen

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Italian club AS Roma will try to follow in the footsteps of Manchester United when it takes on the best players in Major League Soccer this summer.

Man U dominated MLS players in two of the league’s annual all-star games, winning by a combined score of 9-2. But the top domestic league in the U.S. has never lost to another international club since it adopted its current all-star game format a decade ago.

Among the MLS victims over the years: Celtic, West Ham, Fulham and Chelsea, which was beaten 3-2 last season when the game was played at PPL Park in Chester, Pa. “We’re thrilled to be able to bring a club as historic as Roma outside of Europe and play in the U.S.,” AS Roma board member Mark Pannes said Thursday in announcing the matchup.

The game will be played July 31 at Sporting Park, the home of MLS club Sporting Kansas City.

“We think this format is tremendous, when you can take the best players in MLS and play one of the best clubs from Europe,” Pannes said. “It’s highly challenging.”

AS Roma, founded in 1927, became the first club from Serie A to be owned by foreigners when a four-man group of Americans — including James Pallotta, a minority owner of the Celtics, and Thomas DiBenedetto, a limited partner in the Red Sox — purchased a majority interest in August 2011.

They view the all-star game as an opportunity to build AS Roma’s global brand.

“Playing in the MLS All-Star game fits in perfectly with our initiatives in the United States,” said Pallotta, who serves as the club’s president. “Major League Soccer has done a great job building its all-star game into a top-tier event and we’re proud to participate.”

AS Roma’s ownership group isn’t the only connection to the U.S., either.

Along with star players such as Francesco Totti and Daniele De Rossi, Roma is the club of midfielder Michael Bradley, who got his start in MLS and is a stalwart on the U.S. national team.

“I can’t think of a better club to join us here. They’re one of the most successful and popular clubs in Italy, they have tremendous players and some household names,” said MLS president Mark Abbott said.

“We think the format makes this game very compelling and very entertaining, and to have clubs from different leagues around the world is perfect for us.”

MLS teams have mostly had their way with international clubs.

They defeated Mexican club Guadalajara in the first example of the format in 2003.

After the league reverted to an EastWest matchup the following year, MLS clubs knocked off Fulham, Celtic, West Ham and earned a draw with Everton in the ensuing years.

Then came the back-to-back humiliations at the hands of Manchester United.

It’s that example that Roma intends to follow.

“We’re bringing our entire first squad,” Pannes said.

“If they’re healthy, they’re eligible to play, we’re going to put them on the field. We want to win, bottom line. We view this as a competitive match and we know the MLS views it that way as well.”

Sporting KC officials also view it as a crowning achievement.

The club has gone through a rebranding and renaissance since it was purchased by its current ownership in 2006, evolving into a model MLS franchise that routinely sells out Sporting Park — the $200 million, soccerspecific stadium that the organization opened two years ago.

Along with hosting the MLS All-Star game, the stadium will host what could be a critical World Cup qualifier between the U.S. and Jamaica in October.

“For us, it’s going to be another one of those things — we’re going to try to raise the bar if we can,” Sporting KC chief executive Robb Heineman said.

“That’s one of the things we’ve tried to do here as a fan base, as an ownership group and as a team is take things to the next level.”

Heineman joked that he’d try to load up AS Roma’s players on some of Kansas City’s famous barbecue just before the game, and then expressed his admiration for the three-time Serie A champs.

“This is actually really cool for me,” Heineman said.

“The first international match I ever saw in Europe was a Roma-Fiorentino game that was incredible, and it kind of captivated me to think about what a future could look like in soccer. So this is kind of coming full circle for me.”

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Lizette Salas has emerged as one of the United States’ best kept secrets on the LPGA Tour this season. The 23 year-old has not won on tour yet but has been rising up the rankings with four top-ten finishes this season. in Hawaii.

Salas played a ninehole stretch on the final day in 9 under to get to the playoff.

A couple of weeks earlier, she was in position to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship, but closed with a 79 to tie for 25th.

“I am not even in my second full year on tour and I have been learning so much in the last seven or eight months that has not only helped by golf game but my mental game at the same time,” she said.

Salas, who played on the Symetra Tour in 2011, had considered hiring a sports psychologist, but realized she has all the support she needs from her family. But that’s the way it has always been.

Her parents, Ramon and Martha, immigrated from the same region in Mexico.

They met working at a factory in California, got married, had three children and become U.S. citizens. Lizette was the youngest.

She developed a love for golf after visiting her father at the Azusa Greens Golf Course, where he father is the chief mechanic and did some handyman work for club professional Jerry Herrera.

Instead of getting paid for the work, Ramon Salas asked Herrera to give his daughter golf lessons on the weekends.

“I knew at a very young age this sport was going to get me an eduation, just because I knew my parents could not afford $50,000 a year,” Salas said. “So I made it a goal of mine to get a scholarship to any university and when I got to high school I got more serious and had a lot of top universities calling. I was not only overwhelmed. I was scared.”

Salas eventually decided to accept a scholarship at the University of Southern California, where she led the Trojans to an NCAA championship and became the school’s first four-time All-American.

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ROADEO Instead of broncs and bulls, participants will tame their twowheelers at the City Wide Bike Roadeo on Saturday. The City of Red Deer and Better Biking Red Deer will host the annual event at the Kinsmen Community Arenas. The event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Elementary school students who have participated in the School Safety Cycle Program will demonstrate their bicycle skills and bike safety knowledge in a non-competitive environment. The event is sponsored by the Piper Creek Optimist Club.

River Bend welcomes deal AGREEMENT WITH CITY PUTS GOLF COURSE ON SOLID FINANCIAL GROUND: MANAGER licence fees and to defer payments on the $1.7-million loan for the length of the contract. The society has been unable to make loan payments since 2007. Property taxes will continue to be due.

range solution because no one can predict the future.

“We are definitely a self-sustaining business as long as we’re not also carrying all River Bend Golf and Recreation Area is the park costs associated with providing a not a drain on the public purse but 420-acre park, having done that for a viable jewel in Central Alberta, 23 years,” said Gilchrist. says the course’s general manager.

‘WE ARE DEFINITELY A SELF-SUSTAINING In 2012, the golf course underAndrew Gilchrist, general manwent an operational audit that diBUSINESS AS LONG AS WE’RE NOT ager of the city-owned recreation rected the development of a lonALSO CARRYING ALL THE PARK COSTS facility, said people may think ger term sustainability plan. The short-term when they hear the city new agreement stemmed from the ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING A 420-ACRE may have to re-invest in the propand ongoing talks.

PARK, HAVING DONE THAT FOR 23 YEARS.’ audit erty.

A key requirement of the new Gilchrist said the new agreeagreement separates the golf and — ANDREW GILCHRIST, GENERAL MANAGER ment with the City of Red Deer is non-golf activities. a step in the right direction to put The society is solely responsithe golf course on solid financial Gilchrist said the picture is not crystal ble for operation of the golf and non-golf ground. clear for everyone to understand but the related amenities. The society will retain On Monday, the city gave the struggling course is a very viable business that had a its own reserve and is responsible for the golf course another helping hand while en- couple of rough years because there was capital costs related to the golf-related tering into a new three-year contract with no long-term planning and because of the amenities. the non-profit society. global economic recession.

The city agreed to write off $337,800 in He said the new agreement is a medium- Please see GOLF on Page C2

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A workshop to teach people how to connect on a soul level to find out what their pets are thinking and feeling will run on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Centre for Spiritual Healing in Red Deer.

Heather Faris, a Calgary body/mind therapist and animal communicator, will lead the Learn to Communicate with Animals Workshop.

Registration is $150. To register, call 1-403-4619153 or e-mail arccalg@ telus.net. For more information, visit www. thehealingspacecalgary. com. Centre for Spiritual Healing is located at 6315 Horn St.

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools board has passed a budget that will see no staff layoffs or program cuts for the upcoming school year.

The board passed the $81,910,255 budget that will run from Sept. 1, 2013, to Aug. 31, 2014.

Last year’s budget was about $700,000 less.

Given the financial challenges in Alberta and the restrictive budget handed down by the provincial government, board chairman Adriana Lagrange said the school division will actually lose $1.7 million.

HORMONE TALK A registered nutritional consulting practitioner will tell women how they can stop the needless suffering from being hostage to their hormones.

Brenda Eastwood wrote Get Off the PMS and Perimenopausal Roller Coaster: Learn 9 Natural Fast Track Solutions to Balanced Hormones.

She will speak in Red Deer on Monday from 6:45 to 9 p.m. at iHotel, 6500 67th St. Preregistration required by donation (in lieu of her $79 fee). All proceeds will go to Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter. For more information and to register, go to www.

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The school division has reserves to tap into so it can avoid changes that would impact students.

This school year saw 7,442 students enrolled.

“At the end of the day, we will have a deficit of $638,000,” said Lagrange.

“That will be coming out of our reserves.”

Lagrange said that they anticipate a student increase of one to 1.5 per cent.

Typically, the school division has seen increases greater than that, but they are trying to be conservative with enrolment estimates.

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The sod has been turned and the ground work for a new francophone school is well underway. Located just to the south of the existing Ecole La Prairie school at 34th Street and 49th Avenue in Red Deer, the new kindergarten to Grade 12 school will have an initial capacity of 250 students. The school will feature 13 classrooms and two portables and a much larger gymnasium. It is one of four schools being built in the Red Deer area and will open for fall 2014.

‘Never grow up’ at this year’s Central Alberta Children’s Festival.

The two-day festival kicks off at 10 a.m. today and runs until 7 p.m. in Rotary Recreation Park.

The gates open again at 10 a.m. on Saturday and the event wraps up at 4 p.m.

More than 40 tents and activity stations will fill the park to keep everyone active and keep their imaginations running. Stations included bubblewrap popping, Science World, Diversity Corner, face painting, fun physical activities and much more.

Acts like Peter and Mary, The Kerplunks and Hoja and many others will perform on the two stages throughout the festival.

Tickets are $6 per person. A family pass is $20 and a family anytime pass is $30. School classes pay $5 per person with the sixth ticket free. Children under one get in free.

For more information, visit www.centralalbertachildrensfestival.ca.

Save Michener sign campaign ramping up

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Citizens are planting Save Michener Centre signs in their yards this spring.

“We’ve got 1,000 signs going out. I’m estimating 300 to 400 are out there already,” said Jason Heistad, vice-president with Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, on Wednesday.

Friends of Michener Centre

and Alberta Union of Provincial Employees are calling on the province to cancel its plan to close the long-standing facility for the developmentally disabled.

The province announced in March that 125 residents will be relocated starting in September.

Fifty of them who are medically fragile are to be moved to seniors care facilities.

Another 105 residents who

already live in Michener Hill group homes will be allowed to stay.

People signed up for signs when they attended rallies denouncing the closure.

They can also go to the Friends of Michener Facebook page or the AUPE website for information.

Heistad said the majority of signs are being erected in Red Deer, but they can also be seen in communities around Central

Alberta.

The signs are one of the ways those who support the centre are trying to send a message to government.

Almost 11,000 signatures have also been collected on petitions to keep Michener Centre open.

“For us to have 11,000 signatures already in eight weeks, it’s incredible.”

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MICHENER: More signatures than votes He said it’s more than some of the votes politicians get in a municipal or provincial election.

“We want to hit 20,000 (signatures) by the end of summer and I think we can do it.

“The campaign is going strong. Our goal is to hit all the farmer’s markets in Central Alberta. We’re going to be at Westerner Days.”

More than 3,700 letters have been sent to Premier Alison Redford, Associate Minister of Services for People with Developmental Disabilities Frank Oberle, Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski, Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith, Liberal Leader Raj Sherman and NDP Leader Brian Mason urging the government to keep Michener open. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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People opposed to the closure of the Michener Centre in Red Deer have taken to placing signs in their yards to keep the issue in the public eye. focus for the golf course’s sustainability.

Gilchrist said the previous agreement had its purpose in its day but it did not anticipate the changing trends of running golf courses and planning for the future infrastructure needs.

The society took out a loan in 2004 to expand the clubhouse and has not made payments since 2007.

During the planning of Waskasoo Park and the early days of the course, city administration was opposed to expanding the club house because it was felt the operating costs could not be sustained. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Scout, cadets honoured with Duke of Edinburugh Awards A Red Deer Scout and some members of the Olds Air Cadets have been honoured with Duke of Edinburgh’s awards.

Cody Richards with the Red Deer 18th Morrisroe Venturer Company, under the leadership of Felix Gebbink and Bruce Schollie, was recognized during a special ceremony in Calgary on May 24.

Second-lieutenant David Olsen’s 185 Olds Air Cadets were also honoured — Mark Hogg of Carstairs, Eren Baymak of Olds, Walker Smith of Olds, Tayla Sturrock of Olds, Kevin Waldron of Olds, Mateah Wiebe of Bowden, and Tucker Wilson of Olds.

A total of 36 young Albertans received awards from Lt.-Gov. Donald Ethell.

The Olds group, as well as Richards, achieved the silver standard level of the award. Richards received a bronze medal earlier this year.

To receive the silver level, a young person has to perform voluntary community service of at least 30 hours; plan and participate in an adventurous journey; carry on a hobby or skill for at least six months; and pursue a physical fitness program of at least 40 hours.

The Duke of Edinburgh’s award is a global leading youth achievement program established in 1956

by Prince Philip that now operates in more than 130 countries. Through the program, youth can work towards three levels of achievement: bronze, silver and gold.

The awards are handed out twice a year in Alberta.

Islam teachings exhibit at Olds An exhibit promoting Islam’s peaceful teachings will open in Olds on Saturday.

The purpose of the exhibit is to provide insight into Islam’s fundamental teachings of peace and tolerance and to dispel commonplace myths about the religion, such as the misunderstanding that it promotes terrorism and hate or denies women equal rights, says a news release from organizer Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at.

Running until June 15 at the Olds Municipal Library, the Exploring Islam Exhibition will make its closing with an event from 1 to 2 p.m. that offering refreshments and volunteers will be on hand to answer questions.

Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at brings together followers of different religions across Canada and organizes more than 100 interfaith seminars and exhibitions each year.

ATCO, Samson Cree Nation to co-operate on pipdline work ATCO Pipelines and Hobbema’s Samson Cree Nation will co-operate on the replacement of an aging pipeline.

CATHOLIC: Teacher hirings planned The money received from the province for increased student numbers would be reinvested into teaching staff.

“We are looking at probably hiring 13 teachers — so we can maintain class levels at a good level,” said Lagrange.

Lagrange said the board approached this budget with caution, in part because it hasn’t yet finalized a

The 67-year-old section of pipeline runs through the reserve and is part of a larger network that provides natural gas service from Wetaskiwin to Viking.

An agreement signed on Thursday includes an ATCO commitment to explore employment and training opportunities for First Nation residents.

ATCO will also invest in the community through its support of the Samson Cree Nation Education Trust Fund, says an ATCO news release announcing the deal.

Financial terms of the deal remain confidential, said ATCO spokesperson Carly Robertson.

Regulatory approvals are still required and construction is expected to start later this year on replacing the 10-km section of pipeline.

“The Samson Cree Nation values this agreement with ATCO Pipelines and looks forward to building a productive relationship over many years,” said Samson Chief Marvin Yellowbird, in a statement.

“Through this agreement and ATCO’s support of our initiatives, we can continue to build a strong and vibrant community.”

Penhold review work completed Field work for a municipal inspection of Penhold’s operations has been completed.

Consultants have submitted their findings to Alberta Municipal Affairs and staff are now going through the draft report, says department spokesman Jerry Ward.

“That is expected to move forward for the minister’s consideration in the next two weeks,” said Ward. “We expect the public presentation of the report will occur in early July.”

Council requested the review last fall in response to criticism from some residents about high taxes.

Hundreds signed a petition calling on the province to scrutinize town operations.

Consultants for St. Albert-based Russell Farmer and Associates Consulting Ltd. conducted the review, which involved interviews with the mayor and council, municipal staffers and members of the public.

Mayor Dennis Cooper has said he welcomes the process, which he expects will provide useful information.

RDC art program gets new courses Red Deer College’s Visual Art program is getting a small makeover.

Two new courses have been added to the Visual Art portfolio focus on professional practice for second-year students.

The college will renovate existing classroom space to add a new gallery in the Cenovus Energy Learning Common in RDC’s Four Centres. New learning and digital media labs and a photo documentation studio are also part of the plans.

No new funding will be used to make the changes.

The department is shifting the funding from the artist in residence program to the new courses.

The new courses and renovated learning spaces will be ready in the fall.

To learn more about the Visual Art program, go to www.rdc.ab.ca/programs.

teachers’ contract with the local Alberta Teachers’ Association.

“We’re not anticipating anything unforeseen happening,” said Lagrange.

The schools are in good repair and the buses are in excellent shape, so they should be fine through this budget, she added.

Overall, the school division is in good shape, she said.

The main concern is if Alberta Education continues to give less and less dollars, then the division’s reserves will run out, Lagrange said.

“We’re concerned how that will affect us in the future,” she said. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

School bomb threat accused receives conditional discharge One of the accused in a Lacombe school bomb threat was given a conditional discharge in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday.

Steven Joseph Reader, 18, was one of several people charged, some of whom are youths, by Lacombe Police after a violent message, including a bomb threat, was spray-painted on an outside wall of Ecole James S. McCormick School.

Appearing before Judge Gordon Deck, Reader pleaded guilty to tagging a message.

But he was not the one who spray painted the bomb threat.

Reader’s defence attorney Andrew Phypers said the incident was a lapse in judgment.

Reader had a difficult childhood and was diagnosed with both attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Both his principal and his social worker submitted letters supporting his efforts to turn his life around and do well.

Reader apologized for the incident and the damage it caused.

Crown prosecutor Murray McPherson had suggested a “short, sharp” prison term in a prior court appearance.

Deck agreed with Phypers’ submission of a conditional discharge.

He sentenced Reader to 12 months of probation, as well as 100 hours of community service, to be completed by May 16, 2014.

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The city will pay an annual fee for service for the operation of the nongolf activities ($144, 200 in 2014 and $148, 526 in 2015).

The new agreement no longer includes an annual licence fee payment.

The society will budget for minor capital as part of its operational budget.

Greg Scott, director of Community Services, said the impact on the city’s capital budget is unknown at this time.

“We are exploring that now and will be dealing with it as part of the 10-year capital plan,” said Scott. “This will be discussed as part of the 2014 budget deliberations.”

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes, the council representative on the board, said no one can predict what will happen in the future but the new agreement will allow the board to have a continued

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Canadian banker pay ranks high AMONGST SOME OF THE HIGHEST-PAID CEOS IN NORTH AMERICA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian bankers were among some of the highest-paid banking executives in North America last year, with three in the Top 10, according to a new list compiled by Bloomberg Markets magazine.

In all, six Canadian bank CEOs were in the Top 20, led by the Royal Bank of Canada’s (TSX:RY) Gordon Nixon, who came in at No. 4.

Nixon’s total pay package was US$12.6 million in 2012 according to the listings, up 25 per cent from the year before, when he was in eighth place.

Bank of Nova Scotia’s (TSX:BNS) Richard Waugh was bumped down one spot to seventh place, with US$11.1 million, fol-

lowed by TD Bank’s (TSX:TD) Ed Clark, who was No. 8 on the list with US$10.8 million.

Clark’s pay actually went down by almost five per cent from the year before, when he was at No. 5, as did that of three other Canadian bank CEOs on the list.

Gerald McCaughey, CEO of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSX:CM), took home US$9.3 million, nearly eight per cent less than the year before. That was still good for 11th place, but down from ninth in 2011.

The Bank of Montreal’s (TSX:BMO) William Downe — No. 12 — took in US$9.2 million, seven per cent less than in 2011, when he ranked No. 10 on the list.

National Bank of Canada (TSX:NA) chief Louis Vachon rounded up the Canadian bankers on the list at No. 17 with US$7.2

Current account deficit drops

WASHINGTON — The average U.S. household has a long way to go to recover the wealth it lost to the recession, a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis concludes.

The typical household has regained less than half its lost wealth, the analysis says. That’s far below the estimate in a Federal Reserve report in March that calculated that Americans as a whole had regained 91 per cent of their losses.

Household wealth plunged $16 trillion from the third quarter of 2007 through the first quarter of 2009.

By the final three months of 2012, American households as a group had regained $14.7 billion.

Yet once those figures are adjusted for inflation and population growth, the average household has recovered only 45 per cent of its wealth, the St. Louis Fed concludes.

— The Canadian Press and The Associated Press

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million.

That was 1.4 per cent less than he made in 2011, when he held the 14th spot.

But no Canadian bank CEO came even close to matching the salary of the list’s top earner, Lloyd Blankfein, who was paid US$26 million in 2012 — a 73 per cent raise for his work in turning around the fortunes of Goldman Sachs.

The Bloomberg Markets magazine rankings also put Nixon, Waugh and Clark among some of the most overpaid CEOs when comparing compensation to a bank’s average asset, stock performance and return on equity.

Downe, McCaughey and Vachon were amongst the most underpaid.

The rankings are being published in the magazine’s July 2013 issue.

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Statistics Canada says the country’s Canada’s current account deficit on a seasonally adjusted basis shrank by $500 million to $14.1 billion in the first quarter. The agency says the change largely reflected lower deficits on trade in goods and services.

It says the deficit on trade in goods declined by $400 million in the quarter to $1.7 billion as both exports and imports strengthened, with exports recording a larger increase.

The goods surplus with the United States remained at $11.2 billion, reflecting corresponding increases in both exports and imports.

The deficit on trade in services was reduced by $200 million to $5.8 billion, with lower payments on trade in commercial services and higher receipts on transportation services accounting for most of the changes.

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LENGTHY COURT BATTLE ENDS, INVESTORS GET TINY FRACTION OF LOSSES

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From left, Ecube Labs CEO Kwon Sunbeom, his co-founders Lee Seungjae and Kwon Hyungsuk pose with their product, a solar energypowered garbage bin, at their office in Seoul, South Korea. Instead while his peers were seeking jobs at Samsung and LG, Kwon Sunbeom scaled back his studies and started the company with friends. Together they invented the garbage bin that compresses rubbish using solar power and wirelessly communicates to be collected when full. Using 50 million won ($44,000) of their own money and channeling the business in a garage spirit that made Silicon Valley famous, they lived for a month in a shabby factory without air conditioning, subsisting on instant noodles, to make their first prototype. So far they have sold 31 of their ‘Smart Bins’ to universities in Seoul and another 12 to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Red Flame Industries sold One of Red Deer’s homemade success stories has been scooped up by an American company.

Red Flame Industries Inc., which was founded in 1996 by Jared Sayers, has been acquired by Bolttech Mannings Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pa. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The Edgar Industrial Park business provides specialty plant, pipeline, and engineering and certification services for the oil, gas, petrochemical and renewable resource industries.

It grew out of Sayers’ skill at performing “hot taps” — the process of

installing fittings onto oil and gas lines that are still operating.

The company later added other services, including non-destructive testing of equipment like pipelines.

In 2002, Sayers received the Business Development Bank of Canada’s Young Entrepreneur Award for Alberta.

Bolttech Mannings said in a release that Sayers, who is CEO and president of Red Flame, will continue to lead the company from Red Deer.

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TORONTO — The lengthy battle by Bre-X investors to recover billions of dollars in Canada’s largest mining fraud appears to be over.

Under a settlement agreement approved Thursday by the Alberta Court of Queens Bench, all classaction suits against the principals in the case have been dismissed.

The Calgary court made the ruling at the request of bankruptcy trustees Deloitte and Touche, which said there was no realistic prospect of realizing any significant recovery through the litigation and that the costs of proceeding were prohibitive.

As a result, all parties agreed to a payment of $5.2 million to be divided among investors who apply for a settlement.

Bre-X became known as the largest mining fraud in Canadian history back in 1997 when its claim of a major gold discovery in Indonesia proved to be a fake.

Investors around the world lost an estimated $3 billion in the resulting collapse of the company’s share price.

Deloitte and Touche was appointed as trustee in bankruptcy of Bre-X Minerals Ltd. by the Alberta court in November 1997 after the company was hit with several multibillion-dollar shareholder lawsuits.

The trustee sought to recover insider trading profits from several of Bre-X’s former executives in Ontario and an action was pursued in Alberta against Bre-X’s sister company, Bresea Resources Inc. Litigation was also pursued in the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas and Philippines and efforts were undertaken to recoup monies that had been deposited in a Channel Island Trust.

But in the end, the action from 1998 through to 2011 recovered only $5 million from the Channel Island Trust and a further $2 million in the settlement of the action against Bresea.

With court approval, the funds were added to the cash on hand and used to fund ongoing recovery efforts. However, Deloitte said that by 2011 it had become apparent no further recoveries were possible.

Part of the reason was that funds frozen under various injunctions had been spent under the terms of those orders that permitted payment of the defendants’ living expenses and legal costs, Deloitte said at the time.

As well, one of the principal targets of the litigation, Bre-X’s geologist, John Felderhof, was acquitted after a lengthy Ontario Securities Commission trial.

Banks producing decent earnings DESPITE ECONOMIC HEADWINDS IN CANADA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Despite low interest rates and a slowdown in consumer lending, Canada’s big banks managed to eke out another quarter of decent earnings growth by controlling costs and investing in their wealth management and capital markets businesses.

Some of the banks — CIBC and National Bank — also raised their annual dividends.

“They’re doing what they can, where they can, because they can’t change the interest rate environment,” said Robert Sedran, an analyst at CIBC World Markets.

The anticipated slowdown in Canadian consumer lending has arrived, leading to earnings that Sedran described as not spectacular but “good enough,” considering the economic headwinds the banks facing.

“I don’t think the numbers were great; I think the numbers were good.

“And that’s all we were expecting, so I tend to look at the quarter favourably from that perspective.”

Scotiabank (TSX:BNS), TD Bank and the Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) all came in just short of analyst estimates, while Royal Bank’s earnings matched expectations.

CIBC (TSX:CM) managed to beat analyst expectations by four cents while National Bank (TSX:NA) did so by a wide margin, raking in adjusted earnings of $2.08 per share compared to a consensus estimate of $1.98.

Combined, Canada’s six big banks earned roughly $7.5 billion during the quarter, up from $7.1 billion a year ago.

TD Bank and BMO both said signs the U.S. economy is recovering — such as shrinking unemployment and an increase in home values — should help their retail operations south of the border.

However, analysts noted that low interest rates and competitiveness in the U.S. banking sector are likely to put pressure on profit margins.

That’s why it’s crucial for Canadian banks that wish to compete in the U.S. banking sector to “get themselves to scale,” said Sedran, noting that he thinks TD and BMO have both succeeded in doing so through their various acquisitions.

“Having said that, as a bank, you’re still struggling under a low rate environment there, as well,” said Sedran.

“But the opportunity in the next few

years seems to be more aligned towards the U.S. business growing than the Canadian personal and commercial banking business growing.”

TD bank’s CEO Ed Clark has indicated that so far, strong volume growth south of the border has been able to offset most of this compression, putting the bank in a strong position if and when interest rates in the U.S. should rise.

Improving economic conditions in the U.S. are likely to help even those Canadian banks that don’t have retail operations there.

Royal Bank (TSX:RY) said it is focusing on growing its capital markets business in the U.S., while Scotiabank also signalled that improvements in the American economy should help its various businesses.

Looking forward, Sedran expects more of the same in the next few quarters.

“The way I look at Canada is that profit growth is normalizing,” said Sedran.

“I think we’re still going to be able to get sort of mid-digit single earnings growth in Canada, it’s just not as compelling as what we have been getting.”

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The TSX closed slightly higher Thursday with strength coming from mining stocks as the market gave a tepid reception to higher profits at Royal Bank (TSX:RY) and CIBC (TSX:CM).

The S&P/TSX composite index was up 13.95 points to 12,746.55 as Royal Bank posted $1.9 billion of net income in the second quarter, up 26 per cent from a year earlier. The profit amounted to $1.27 share while adjusted diluted EPS was $1.31, which met a Thomson Reuters estimate but missed a Bloomberg estimate by a penny. RBC shares lost $1.14 to $62.84.

CIBC, which increased its quarterly dividend by two cents to 96 cents per share, had a second-quarter profit of $876 million, up eight per cent from a year ago. Its net income and adjusted net income both came in at $2.12 per share and beat the consensus estimate.

CIBC also said it is working on alternatives in case it does not renew its Aeroplan credit card agreement with Aimia (TSX:AIM), which is set to expire at the end of the year.

CIBC shares dropped $1.21 to $79.22 while Aimia slipped 20 cents to $14.98.

CIBC and Royal Bank were the last of Canada’s big banks to report their second-quarter results.

The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.49 of a cent to 97.09 cents US amid rising prices for gold and copper.

U.S. markets were positive amid slightly weaker than expected U.S. economic growth in the first quarter, a rise in jobless insurance claims and an indication of further strength in home sales in the coming months.

However, indexes closed well off the best levels of the session and the Dow Jones industrials came down from a gain of about 100 points to close up 21.73 points to 15,324.53, while the Nasdaq gained 23.78 points to 3,491.3. The S&P 500 index rose 6.05 points to 1,654.41.

A second reading on U.S. gross domestic product for the first quarter showed GDP coming in at an annualized rate of 2.4 per cent, a bit below the initial reading of a 2.5 per cent gain. But the showing was still a marked improvement from the 0.4 per cent gain in the final quarter of 2012.

And the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid rose 10,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 354,000, a sign layoffs have in-

creased. The U.S. Labor Department also said the four-week average, a less volatile measure, increased 6,750 to 347,250, the third straight gain. The average had fallen to a five-year low of 338,000 earlier this month.

The reports reassured investors that the Federal Reserve won’t pull back on its economic stimulus any time soon, meaning the central bank will keep up its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases.

There was some positive news from the U.S. housing front as the National Association of Realtors says its seasonally adjusted index for pending U.S. home sales rose 0.3 per cent to 106, the highest since April 2010, when a homebuyer tax credit inflated sales. Signed contracts have jumped 10.3 per cent in the past 12 months.

The gold sector led TSX advancers, up almost five per cent while August gold was up $20.20 to US$1,412 an ounce. Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) jumped $1.38 to C$21.91 while Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) ran ahead $1.46 to $30.16.

The base metals sector rose 1.25 per cent as copper futures were ahead two cents at US$3.32 a pound.

Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) advanced 69 cents to C$28.59.

The telecom group led decliners, down one per cent with Telus Corp.

(TSX:T) down 67 cents to $36.42.

Most bank stocks were lower, taking the financial sector down 0.4 per cent as Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) shed 66 cents to $61.84.

The energy sector was slightly lower as oil prices erased early losses and the July crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained 48 cents to US$93.61 a barrel.

Prices improved after data from the U.S. Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said stockpiles increased by three million barrels last week. The American Petroleum Institute had reported a bigger, 4.4 million-barrel increase in inventories late Wednesday.

Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) was down 14 cents to C$31.94.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at closeThursday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,746.55 up 13.95 points TSX Venture Exchange — 960.74 up 7.04 points

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 84.32 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.45 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.77 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 49.84 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 12.62 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.50 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.98 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 55.40 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.63 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 22.97

TSX 60 — 732.59 up 0.04 point Dow — 15,324.53 up 21.73 points S&P 500 — 1,654.41 up 6.05 points Nasdaq — 3,491.30 up 23.78 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 97.09 cents US, up 0.49 of a cent Pound — C$1.5685, up 0.24 of a cent Euro — C$1.3435, up 0.41 of a cent Euro — US$1.3044, up 1.05 cents Oil futures: US$93.61 per barrel, up 48 cents (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,412 per oz., up $20.20 (August contract) US$1,411.50 per oz., up $20.20 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.756 per oz., up 60 cents $795.91 per kg., up $19.29 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 960.74, up 7.04 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 148.01 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: July ’13 $5.00 higher $645.50; Nov. ’13 $3.60 higher $573.70; Jan. ’14 $2.90 higher $574.90; March ’14 $3.10 higher $569.20; May ’14 $2.40 higher $561.00; July ’14 $2.40 higher $559.10; Nov. ’14 $2.40 higher $534.70; Jan ’15 $2.40 higher $534.70; March ’15 $2.40 higher $534.70; May ’15 $2.40 higher $534.70; July ’15 $2.40 higher $534.70.

Barley (Western): July ’13 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $194.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $199.00; March ’14 unchanged $199.00; May ’14 unchanged $199.00; July ’14 unchanged $199.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $199.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $199.00; March ’15 unchanged $199.00; May ’15 unchanged $199.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 311,840 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 311,840.

Rogers cuts surprise viewers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Rogers Communications axed its short-lived 24-hour CityNews Channel and slashed production in some areas of its OMNI Television operations Thursday in an abrupt announcement which took viewers by surprise.

A Rogers spokeswoman said the changes “impacted” 62 full-time employees in total — 23 at CityNews Channel and 39 at OMNI Television.

“The impacted positions included all facets of the television industry — production, operations, writing, reporting,” said Andrea Goldstein.

The changes were announced in a memo to employees from Scott Moore, the president of broadcast at Rogers Media.

“We made changes to the company’s television strategy to reflect evolving viewer habits and the global structural shift in advertising,” Moore wrote in the memo obtained by The Canadian Press.

“While difficult, these changes enable us to continue to focus our efforts where we know the market is growing, while helping us to effectively manage our costs.”

Moore said Rogers had “ceased operations of CityNews Channel, effective immediately,” and added that the company would now focus on its allnews Toronto radio station 680News and news operations at its City channels.

CityNews Channel launched in October 2011, touted at the time as a roundthe-clock source for the Greater Toronto Area’s news, entertainment, sports and current affairs. It was broadcast on Rogers’ digital cable systems.

Viewers tuning in to CityNews Channel on Thursday saw a note at the bottom of their screens saying “CITYNEWS CHANNEL is no longer available. Thank you to our loyal viewers.”

Moore also announced changes at Rogers’ OMNI Television, which focuses on multicultural programing.

“The English-language South Asian newscast is no longer being offered and production operations in Alberta have ceased,” Moore wrote.

Rogers said OMNI Television stations in Calgary and Edmonton will continue to operate but original content would not be produced from the Alberta locations.

One observer commenting on Thursday’s developments said the move to have CityNews Channel fade to black was abrupt but didn’t come as a total surprise.

“Any time you have a voice silenced in television news in Toronto, it’s sad,” said Ellin Bessner, national director of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Meanwhile, in terms of the production cuts announced at OMNI, Bessner suggested Rogers could have come to the conclusion it didn’t have enough of a local audience for original multicultural content in Alberta.

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 21.91 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.82 First Quantum Minerals . 18.96 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.16 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.72 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.58 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 43.77 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.68 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.59 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 28.04 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 49.39 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.50 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.14 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 51.33 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 31.94 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.32

Canyon Services Group. 11.37 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.24 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.730 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.93 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.50 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 92.09 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 42.63 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.12 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.72 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.71 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.21 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.61 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.680 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.89 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 32.26 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.35 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.08 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.15 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 52.80

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 61.84 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 59.23 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.22 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.67 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.98 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.11 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 48.60 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 61.35 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.64 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 77.25 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.13 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 62.84 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 30.91 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.34

D I L B E R T

Union created by the merger of CAW, CEP to be called Unifor forts are already underway, even though the union itself won’t officially exist until Labour Day weekend, union brass said.

The switch to a non-traditional name — one that goes beyond simply listing occupations or industries — signals the union is seeking broader, more diverse membership, said CEP president Dave Coles.

“Our members very clearly didn’t want an acronym or to have a name that represents where we work. We don’t care where we work, we want what we do,” he said after the announcement.

The merger will mean giving up the brand recognition achieved by CAW and CEP after many years in the public eye, but Coles said he’s confident the new union will quickly make a name for itself.

CAW national president Ken Lewenza said that while the new Unifor brand will help rally workers, in the end, it’s the union’s message that matters.

“The logo’s important when we’re at demonstrations, when we have our flags, when we’re out there trying to expose what kind of an organization we are, that logo’s going to mean a hell of a lot,” he said.

“But what means everything, everything, in the labour movement is that we care for one another, that we have passion for one another, and that we don’t leave anybody behind,” he said.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Labour leaders say they’ve chosen a “modern, strong, innovative” name to unite workers in what will become Canada’s largest private sector union, part of a branding effort they hope will help bolster their ranks.

The result of the merger of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers will be called Unifor, leaders announced Thursday at a news conference in Toronto.

Its logo will be a white U on a red shield, a symbol of the “strength, protection and security” the union will provide, they said.

“That name and logo will become famous, why? Because you’re going to see us on the picket line, you’re going to see us in the street,” CEP spokesman Gaetan Menard told the cheering crowd of union members.

The CEP and CAW voted last year to join forces, a move they hope will boost the national labour movement.

The new union will represent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 sectors of the economy.

Most of the union’s members will be concentrated in manufacturing, communications and transportation, but it will also represent some public sector employees working in health, education and transit roles.

Signing up new members will be Unifor’s top priority and outreach ef-

STORY FROM PG C3 es and on-site machining for the oil, gas, petrochemical, steel, power generation and offshore industries. It has 24 field offices in the United States and Canada.

Bolttech Mannings CEO Ed Komoski said his company’s acquisition of Red Flame will improve its access to the Canadian market, and give it

SALE: Will improve access to Canadian market In a subsequent release by Grey Mountain Partners, a Boulder, Col.based private equity firm that’s affiliated with Bolttech Mannings, Sayers was quoted as saying “the combined company will be able to seize the tremendous growth opportunities in front of us, broadening our product offering, enhancing our supply chain, and fostering our relationships in the oil and gas industry.”

Bolttech Mannings specializes in industrial bolting, induction servic-

a new service line and different technology. He added that the two companies are a good fit for each other, since they provide complementary services within the same industries.

Bolttech Mannings said it is actively pursuing acquisitions, particularly companies that provide bolting, heat treating, hot tapping, non-destructive testing and other niche services.

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INVITATION TO TENDER Sealed Tenders clearly marked 2013 – Sidewalk Improvement Program – closing Thursday, June 13, 2013, delivered or mailed to the Purchasing Section – Main Floor at: The City of Red Deer 4914 - 48 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3T3

Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On May 22, 2013 the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decision for development permit applications: Discretionary Use Approvals:

and received before 2:00:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, June 13, 2013 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

The Work is comprised of approximately: • 445 linear meters of new concrete walk (1.5m width) • 1270 square meters of asphalt trail (3.0m width) • 19 new curb ramps • 880 square meters of landscape restoration • 1,000 cubic meters of topsoil and excess material removal • 300 square meters of plant bed excavation and placement of topsoil and wood bark mulch (PROVISIONAL) • 48 shrubs (PROVISIONAL) • 6 trees (PROVISIONAL) Tender Documents are to be obtained directly from The City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department, Third Floor, City Hall, on or after 2:00 pm, Monday, June 3, 2013 for a $50 non-refundable fee. The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications 2012 Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 non-refundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer Website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Subcontractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

Inquiries regarding this Project may be directed to: Jamie Flaman, C.E.T., LEED AP The City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department 4914-48 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 3T3 403.342.8158 Email: Jamie.flaman@reddeer.ca

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South Hill P N Construction – Site development for a multiattached (triplex) building with a site area of 598.9m2 to be located at 3425 51 Avenue.

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative & Governance Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on June 14, 2013. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

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Municipal Development Plan Bylaw Amendment 3404/A-2013 East Hill Major Area Structure Plan Bylaw 3499/2013 Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/J-2013

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City Council proposes to pass Municipal Development Plan Bylaw Amendment 3404/A-2013 which provides for revisions to the plan to include: the replacement of the Generalized Future Land Use Concept primarily to remove the Town Centre designation in the north east and to extend the land use concepts to the area annexed to the east in 2009; and to provide additional goals and objectives related to the principles to guide neighbourhood design. East Hill Major Area Structure Plan (MASP) Bylaw Amendment 3499/2013 replaces the current plan. The replacement East Hill MASP (Map shows the East Hill Plan Area) proposes to add the 2009 annexation area to the east; updated various policies and includes direction provided by Council’s adopted planning tools. Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/J-2013 provides for the rezoning or redistricting from AG (Agriculture, Red Deer County) District and R-1 (Country Residential) District (Red Deer County) to A1 (Future Urban Development District); Land Use Constraint Maps have been revised and the section on definitions has been added to reference the new Land Use Constraint Maps.

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Rezoning Phase 2 of Laredo Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/K-2013 City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw by rezoning the second quarter section of land in the Laredo neighbourhood included in the north half of the Lancaster/Vanier Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan. Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/K-2013 provides to rezone 11.43 hectares of land for a variety of residential lots and public open space. Rezoning of land will include: AG, Agriculture District to R1 (Residential, Low Density); R1A (Residential, Semi-Detached); R1G (Residential, Small Lot); R1N (Residential, Narrow Lot) and P1 (Parks and Recreation district). Approximately 156 residential lots will be created.

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Development Officer Approvals On May 28, 2013, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Garden Heights R Baird – a 3.6 m2 relaxation to the maximum site coverage, and a 0.19 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard, for a new single family dwelling with an attached garage, to be located at 38 Grove Close.

Kingsgate Woodchuck Construction Inc. - a 0.31 metre relaxation to the maximum width of a proposed detached garage, to be located at 185 Kerr Close.

Lancaster Meadows Snell & Oslund Surveys Ltd. – a 0.35 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to an existing detached garage, located at 36 Lister Crescent.

Parkvale JMAA Architecture Ltd. – a 31.8 m2 addition to accommodate an elevator for an existing seniors lodge, located at 4277 46A Avenue.

Queens Business Park R.B.W. Consulting – site development for a 2965 m2 industrial building for a shop and office, to be located at 77 Queensgate Crescent.

Vanier Woods East True-Line Contracting Ltd. – a 1.01 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed deck, and a 0.35 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed semi-detached dwelling, to be located at 43 Vista Close.

Bella Rosa Developments Ltd. – a 0.18 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing deck, located at 258 Viscount Close.

True-Line Contracting Ltd. – a 1.01 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed deck, and a 0.35 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed semi-detached dwelling, to be located at 47 Vista Close.

Discretionary Use Deer Park Village Nikki’s Cuts for Mutts – a home based business for dog grooming, to be located at 175 Lyons Close.

Vanier Woods East True-Line Contracting Ltd. - a new 2 bedroom secondary suite, to be located within a proposed single family dwelling at 23 Veronica Close.

Falcon Homes Ltd. - a new 2 bedroom secondary suite, to be located within a proposed single family dwelling at 29 Viking Close.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on June 14, 2013. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403342-8399.

Rezoning for New Public Service Residential District Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/M-2013 City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw by rezoning 1.4 hectares of land along Riverside Drive to a new Public Service Residential District. Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/M-2013 provides to rezone land from P1 (Parks and Recreation District) to PSR (Public Service Residential) to provide for the development of a cultural centre and/or residential uses on Lot 4, Block 8, Plan 892 2959 in a manner that is compatible with adjacent uses and natural areas.

Proposed Amendment to Land Use Bylaw 3357/2006

Plan Area

Change District from: P1 to PSR

Plan Boundary May, 2013

The proposed bylaws may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaws at the Public Hearings on Monday, June 10, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor at City Hall. If you want your letter or petition included on the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Monday, June 3, 2013. Otherwise, you may submit your letter or petition at the Council meeting or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, June 10, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor at City Hall. If you want your letter or petition included on the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Monday, June 3, 2013. Otherwise, you may submit your letter or petition at the Council meeting or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Affected District: P1 – Parks and Recreation District PSR – Public Service Residential Proposed Amendment Map: 12 / 2013 Bylaw: 3357 / M - 2013 Date: May 23, 2013

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, June 10, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor at City Hall. You may submit your letter or petition electronically to: LegislativeServices@reddeer.ca prior to 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 10, 2013 or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information.

If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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‘Reanimated’ Arctic plants offer hope for humans aiming to colonize Mars

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Energy storage with flywheels Harnessing solar and wind enerAt night, the power of the rotatgy both have one limitation: neither ing flywheel is harvested by the provides a 24-hour, round-the-clock drive motor/generator, which is now supply. driven by the flywheel.

As the youngest communicator of This energy is then provided to any clan can tell you, the sun goes the house in an off-grid system, or down and the wind on a large scale, to the grid does not always blow. when needed.

Batteries traditionTypically the construcally have filled this tion of the flywheel has role in off-grid alterbeen either steel or, in the nate energy systems. latest versions, carbon fiThe technology has bre. improved significantly Cost of carbon fibre in the last few decades and controlling the inbut the cost of a batherent wobble of a hightery bank still conspeed metal flywheel have sumes the largest porpushed the economic vition of the total cost. ability beyond most appliFlywheel technolcations of energy storage.

LORNE ogy has been around Large industrial enerOJA for a long time, with gy storage systems cost in the earliest versions, the range of $3 million per utilized by steam enmegawatt hour. gines, operating for Inventor Bill Gray, usover 200 years. ing the research of Professor John Today, the concept of conserva- Vance from Texas A&M, is develoption of momentum is seeing new ing a system using common E-type efficiencies with the advent of (electrical grade) fibreglass, the magnetic bearings, sealed vacuum stuff used in fishing rods or bath chambers and novel designs in fly- tubs. wheel construction.

Not as efficient as carbon fibre, The principle is simple; power it is, however, cost effective at 20 generated by the alternate energy times the energy storage per dollar system drives the flywheel to its of cost. maximum design speed when there Using E-glass causes more wobis an abundance of power such as ble but he address the problem by periods of continual wind or sunny supporting his magnetic bearings skies. on a gimbal system, the same mech-

anism found in gyroscopes.

The system is known as the Very Large Kinetic Energy Storage system or Velkess, for short.

So far, 50 prototypes have been developed and the estimated cost of producing a megawatt hour of electrical energy is $300,000, or one10th the cost of current technology.

Scaling down for off-grid system usage would translate to approximately $1,333 per kilowatt.

Presently, he is working on developing a 15-kilowatt system in which the technical challenge is in the design improvement of a magnetic bearing that can support the weight of a 750-pound rotor.

The ultimate goal is to create a viable option to a battery bank with longer life, lower maintenance costs, and zero environmental impact.

Once developed to its full potential, the Velkess flywheel technology may provide alternate sources of energy storage at a cost that rivals battery banks and generators.

It is more proof of creative humans and their ingenuity at work.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@ solartechnical.ca.

Plants that managed to re-grow after centuries buried under Arctic glaciers could prove useful for would-be pioneers hoping to explore life on other planets, research from a team of Canadian scientists has found.

The results of the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest the land plants that form the foundations of many ecosystems are surprisingly resilient and may be a useful tool for the people who have already announced plans to set up a human colony on Mars, researchers said.

A team of biologists from the University of Alberta travelled to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic in order to survey plant life exposed by the retreat of the Teardrop Glacier.

Researcher Catherine La Farge said the giant ice mass has been shrinking by between three and four metres a year since 2004, exposing larger swaths of plant life for scientists to analyze.

La Farge and her team focused their research on bryophytes, a general term given to ecological building blocks like mosses and other nonvascular plants.

La Farge said researchers were first struck by the fact that bryophytes had been almost perfectly preserved despite the vast quantities of ice that settled over them centuries earlier.

“We were sort of blown away by the biomass of intact communities being exhumed from the rapidly retreating glaciers,” La Farge said in a telephone interview from Edmonton.

Those intact communities — which were entombed by the glacier some time between 1550 and 1850 — showed early signs of being dormant rather than dead, La Farge said.

Many of the plants that surfaced still had a greenish tinge despite their time below the ice.

It wasn’t long, however, before the team observed bright green stems emerging from the recently exposed samples.

Such signs suggested the plants had the potential to begin re-growing, but La Farge and her team required more evidence.

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“We had no idea if it would work, we just wanted to make sure that what we were seeing in the samples coming out from under the glacier . . . was that possible.”

The tests yielded 11 cultures from seven specimens, La Farge said, adding the results hold intriguing implications for those interested in survival under harsh conditions.

Bryophytes are one of the most basic forms of land plants, she said, adding mosses and similar species are essential for the growth of more advanced types of plant life.

The resilience of bryophytes suggests they may be ideal as trial balloons for researchers exploring the prospect of survival beyond earth, she said.

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‘AS PEOPLE BECOME MORE ‘CONNECTED’ OVER THE INTERNET, WE ARE BECOMING MORE DISCONNECTED WITH OUR HUMANITY.’ — CLAYTON BELLAMY

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Juno Award-winning country-rock singer Clayton Bellamy will release his new ‘heavier’ rock-flavoured album Five Crows Silver next month.

Reconnecting on a personal level CLAYTON BELLAMY WILL PERFORM AT A SUICIDE PREVENTION FUNDRAISER IN RED DEER ON JUNE 8

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

Having lost two of his friends to suicide, Clayton Bellamy volunteered to perform at a suicide prevention fundraiser in Red Deer next month.

“It’s a cause I’m very passionate about. ... When I heard that (six Red Deer students) committed suicide, I just felt this is so serious. It’s quickly becoming an epidemic,” said the Juno Award-winning country-rock singer, who will play on Saturday, June 8, at the Above the Noise benefit at Notre Dame High School.

Bellamy revealed that one of his friends killed himself as a young adult and another ended his life just a few years ago. He was devastated by both needless deaths.

“As people become more ‘connected' over the Internet, we are becoming more disconnected with our humanity,” he said.

“We need to reconnect with each other on a more personal level. People are struggling and we don’t even know about it. We need to reach out to them more.”

Bellamy was initially asked by graduating Notre Dame students to donate an item to a local suicide prevention auction they were organizing, but he suggested doing a benefit concert instead. The Edmonton resident is now looking forward to performing for a young audience and spreading a positive mes-

sage of hope.

“It’ll be exciting to meet the kids,” said Bellamy, who recently talked to students from 15 schools in the Northern Lights School District about following their dreams and affecting change.

“The only thing that can change the world is love and people,” according to the straight-talking singer.

While Bellamy won a 2006 Country Recording of the Year Juno for an album by his band the Road Hammers, he mentioned welding pipelines in Fort McMurray for two months last winter to help pay the bills.

The married father of two also holds down a day job as a “morning drive” radio DJ in Edmonton.

“Music goes up and down and I’ve been a lot of things in my life, from chief cook to a bottle washer,” said Bellamy, who feels keeping a foot in the “real world” helps him write more relevant music.

“A lot of times if an artist isn’t really living, if they never change anything, how can they write with any kind of perspective?”

In fact, he makes this statement on his website: “If you don’t stand for anything in your life, then your music won’t stand for anything either.”

His new “heavier” more rock-flavoured album, Five Crows Silver, which is slated for a June 11 release, is loaded with musical contributions from Bellamy’s friends, including Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar, Tom Wilson from Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Mike Plume, his Road Hammers buddies Chris Byrne and Corbett Fransz, and others.

It’s also full of message songs — from his lament for an American dream killed by a recession in Goodbye America, to his new-found appreciation for the Canadian way of life in Love Lead the Way. Bellamy explained the prior tune was inspired by seeing friends lose their jobs and homes, due to a nose-diving U.S. economy. This also drove him back from Nashville to Alberta.

The latter song was written after a Road Hammers tour of northern China.

Bellamy admitted he felt “culture shock” at seeing the slums and congestion. “After going to a country that’s completely different than your own, you come home with a new set of eyes (that reveal) how good we have it here.”

His most personal new song is Victim of My Own Compromise. “I had a lot of time to reflect on the choices I’d made while working in Fort McMurray in the oilfield,” said Bellamy, who regrets caving to pressure to do “this or that” to make his music more saleable, or radio friendly.

“I’ll never do that again. I’ll make no compromises.”

Limited tickets for the 7 p.m. all-ages concert at Notre Dame High School are $20 each of $60 for a family of four, and are available by calling the school office from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by calling at 403-3477866. All proceeds will go to graduating students’ services project, which benefits Red Deer’s Suicide Information and Education Services non-profit group. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Fast and Furious 6 takes the road more trampled DIE-HARD FANS WILL FEEL REWARD, BUT SO-SO ACTING, SCRIPT AND EVEN ACTION SCENES WILL LEAVE OTHERS IN NEUTRAL

BY BRUCE DEMARA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Fast & Furious 6 2 stars (out of four) Rated: PG The two Fs in Fast & Furious 6 might also stand for “familiar” and “family.”

Yep, lovers of the F&F franchise will doubtlessly be pleased to see the whole famn damily reassembled, including Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), who was killed off in the fourth installment of the high-octane series but returns as the memory-challenged moll of 6’s super-villain Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), an exBritish Special Forces soldier turned international terrorist.

The cast of old familiar faces includes Roman and Han and Gisele and Tej and Mia and Brian (Paul Walker), who once again plays second fiddle to Dominic Toretto (the follicle-challenged, gravel-voiced Vin Diesel). Even the villain, Braga, from F&F4 returns in a brief cameo. (Do fans really demand this degree of plot continuity?)

This time, the “family” — as Dominic refers to them repeatedly — is being offered a chance at redemption (a return to the good ol’ U.S. of A with their criminal records wiped clean) as long as they help Diplomatic Security Service agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) stop Shaw from assembling a “Nightshade” bomb. (We are assured this would be a very bad thing.)

“It just doesn’t feel like home,” laments ex-FBI

At the agent Brian, despite living in the lap of luxury on the Canary Islands with Mia and their newborn son.

(Among the amenities offered: no extradition treaty and being able to race along Gran Canaria’s scenic but precariously narrow coastal highway at dangerous speeds.)

The team has gone increasingly international — Brazil, Japan, Mexico — since its humble beginnings on the mean streets of L.A. This time out, they’re off to London, which fortuitously has its own active underground street-racing scene, despite — we’re reminded — having more traffic cameras per square kilometre than any metropolis on the planet.

There’s plenty of shop talk for the car buffs who keep coming back for each installment — sequential transmissions, magnetic suspensions and twin turbo V8s, yada yada — as well as loads of inane dialogue in the form of macho trash talk and pseudo-philosophy.

To wit: “If you keep running your pie hole, you’re going to get an ass-kicking.” “You’ve really got to check that emotion. Your voice just went from Shag-

gy to Scooby Doo.” “Show me how you drive, I’ll show you who you are.”

Diesel delivers his usual deadpan performance, with an occasional horsey grin to break up the monotony, while glassy blue-eyed Walker seems content to play it as low-key as possible, barely registering on screen. The always watchable Dwayne Johnson delivers more brawn and bravado than the other two put together.

Unfortunately, Luke Evans’ turn as the villain is a tepid one, an example of undue restraint in a film where excess is the standard.

It pretty much goes without saying that the script

by Chris Morgan, who penned most of the previous installments, is achingly stupid and beyond ludicrous.

Director Justin Lin, helming his fourth F&F project, seems content to focus on the car racing and action scenes. (He’s already bowed out on F&F7, to be replaced by Saw director James Wan, which is already in pre-production. And why not? The series has racked up more than $1 billion at the box office.)

That’s a bit unfortunate because there’s a sense of ennui and missed opportunities despite all the motorway mayhem, martial arts action, gunplay and a protracted ending that features not one but two climactic chases. Since we’ve all waited so long — more than two hours — couldn’t Lin have dispatched his villains in a more fittingly gory manner?

That said, fans are clearly more interested in car chases than character development and coherent plotting, and this installment is sure to satisfy their need for overdrive action. The rest of us are more likely to be stuck in neutral.

Bruce DeMara is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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FORMATION OF MEMORY

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

New season a chore to watch and a delight to decrypt

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Rooted in the Arts celebrates the 2013 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artists Awards and is open at the Harris-Warke Gallery at Sun Works in Red Deer until June 22. Artists have considered and interpreted the exhibits theme both literally and metaphorically, including ideas of being anchored, centred, grounded, founded, originated, established, settled and entrenched. The opening reception will be on June 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. in conjunction with First Fridays. The three pieces shown here are in the foreground, Formation of Memory by Carly LaRue, Spruce Drive by Jeri-Lyn Ing and Water by Carol Lynn Gilchrist.

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● Rooted in the Arts celebrates the 2013 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artists Awards and is open at Harris-Warke Gallery until June 22. Artists have considered and interpreted the exhibit’s theme both literally and metaphorically including ideas of being anchored, centred, grounded, founded, originated, established, settled and entrenched. The opening reception will be on June 7 from 6 to 8 in conjunction with First Fridays. Phone 403-597-9788. ● Reflections from a Century will be open until Aug. 5 at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibit celebrates Red Deer’s Centennial, and features over 50 works chosen from significant artists of Central Alberta. Dave More is curator. See www.reddeermuseum.com, or phone 403-309-8405. ● Hang-ups and Insights: Fifth Annual IB and AP Art Show with Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School and Hunting Hills High School will be open at Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from May 28 to June 22. ● Gallery on Main in Lacombe May Spring Gala Anniversary Art Show and Sale is happening May 24 to 26.

On Friday, take in the wine and cheese reception from 5 to 8 p.m. On Saturday there will be art demonstrations by Dee Poisson doing colored pencil, Vivian Bennett doing people portraits acrylic on canvas from 1 to 4 p.m. On Sunday there will be demonstrations by Theresa Potter doing stained glass and Karoll Brinton doing acrylic on canvas, as well as easy listening music by Doug and John from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. ● Middle Schools Awesome Art Show will be featured in the Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from April 30 to May 26 and features artwork from Central, Gateway Christian, West Park and Glendale Middle Schools. ● Works by Sandy Proscilo will be featured at Café Pichinlingue until May 31. ● Down the Rabbit Hole with Mary: A selection of the strange, the diverse and the traditional will be featured until

May 31 at The Hub. ● Watercolour paintings circa 1937 by Frank L. Beebe will be on display at Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre this month. These paintings are from the teaching collection of E.A. and Marjorie Wood, on loan from Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Phone 403-346-2010. ● Works by Danny Lake may be viewed at The Velvet Olive Lounge until May 31. ● Remarkable Red Deer: Stories from the Heart of the Parkland is now open at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery and will celebrate the centennial of the city of Red Deer.

Phone 403-309-8405. ● The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates Red Deer Centennial with the opening of the exhibit Red Deer Sport History. Take a look at over 100 years Sports History and discover the impact that sport had on Red Deer and its citizens. For more information contact Debbie at debbie@ashfm.ca or visit www.ashfm.ca or call 403-3418614.

To be included in this listing, please email event details to editorial@reddeeradvocate.com, fax to 403-341-6560, or phone 403-314-4325.

LIVE DATES ● The Centrium presents Dean Brody on July 20 as part of Westerner Days. Ticket price is $20 which does not include gate admission, service fees and taxes. Tickets may be purchased at Ticketmaster.ca, or phone 1-855-985-5000. Down With Webster will perform on July 19 as part of the Westerner Days Exposition. The concert is free with gate admission.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the concert begins at 8:30 p.m.

Please arrive early as seating is in a first come, first served basis. All ages show.

To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

Pickles creator reflects on inspiration

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Brian Crane was ready to walk away. It was the late 1980s, and three syndicates had replied with three rejection letters. As he approached middle age, he was resigned to mothballing his childhood hopes, packing away his comic samples in a cabinet.

A dream refiled.

He had never thought of himself as a writer, after all. “That’s why I waited till I was [almost] 40 years old before I even attempted a comic strip,” Crane said. “I could never write a comic strip. I could never have that many ideas.” Or so he believed. He knew he had artistic talent — he worked as an art director in an ad agency — and he was clever enough to write greeting cards.

His wit was in the cards. A future as a comic-strip creator, however, seemingly wasn’t.

Fortunately, he says now, his wife wasn’t having any of it.

“She said, ‘You need to be doing this again,’ “ Crane says of the comic-strip submissions. “To prove her wrong, I sent it to The Washington Post Writers Group.

“She proved to be right. Since then, I’ve learned: She’s almost never wrong.”

On Saturday night in Pittsburgh, Crane looked right at his wife, Diana, as he clutched his gleaming statuette. As the creator of the Washington Post Writers Group-syndicated Pickles, Crane had just been named Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year — in a tie with Baby Blues co-creator Rick Kirkman — at the National Cartoonist Society’s 67th annual Reuben Awards ceremony. As peers showered him with applause, Crane could also see his daughters — one of whom colors his comic strip — and other relatives.

“That moment was great,” Crane recalls. “Diana’s been my support and main cheerleader for the last 47 years.”

6th CALGARY Because of Pickles, he now can hold that trophy.

And because he submitted Pickles at Diana’s urgFFurniture it & CCollectables ll t bl ing all those years ago, he Show & Sale teases, “She can hold that over me.”

Sat. 10-5:30 & Sun. 10-4 Pickles, a warm-hearted comic that mines mulGarrison Curling Rink tigenerational humour, 2288-47 Ave.. S.W. recently sold to its 800th newspaper — a very Carswell s healthy client list for a 403-343-1614 strip that launched even as the journalism industry began to contract.

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Pickles creator Brian Crane was named Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year (in a tie with Rick Kirkman) Saturday at the National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Awards ceremony in Pittsburgh.

“When I first flew to D.C. to talk syndication and talk contract, [editors] told me it was an imploding market,” Crane says of newspaper comics syndication. “I just don’t worry about it; I just do the best I can.”

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By now, you know everything.

You have watched every episode of the first three seasons of Arrested Development.

You have swallowed Netflix’s bonus fourth season without chewing. You have tried to wash it down with honey from the hive mind. You have begun to gag.

The new season started streaming early Sunday morning. The professional recappers picked it apart almost instantly, littering the Internet with twitticisms. Superfans got exactly what we wanted but still feel bereft — a psychological symptom of 21st century existence, as well as a fitting response to the sitcom that best satirizes this now-teenaged era.

The first two seasons of Arrested Development, which aired on Fox from 2003 to 2005, ennoble the medium of television. The 22-minute episodes are tart, fizzy escapades following a family of entitled Californians whose real estate wealth evaporates after the patriarch (genius Jeffrey Tambor) is jailed for defrauding investors.

The show, with its tic-laden characters and topshelf storytelling, was a bonfire of inanities. It exulted in its inside jokes. It embraced verbal artistry and narrative footnoting. It drew energy from the awful gravity that binds even the most combative families.

Above all, it trusted the intelligence and vigilance of its handful of viewers; we, in turn, took possession of this overlooked masterpiece in order to feel superior to the rest of America, which was making Two and a Half Men a No. 1 show.

Arrested Development was five years ahead of its time. Its meme-ability predated the rise of the meme.

Its parodies of 1 percenters and malfeasant corporations were 1,000 news cycles ahead of the subprime mortgage crisis and the Olympic debut of Rafalca.

The metastatic third and final network season, which wrapped in early 2006, thumbed its nose at the mundane forces that brought about its demise: modest viewership, fleeing advertisers and fickle TV executives. Each would soon be immaterial to a series’ distribution and survival.

Thus we have arrived, seven years later, at the Internet resurrection of a beloved television series whose cult has since expanded into a major religion.

And we are faced with two questions — one as old as consciousness, the other as new as Netflix Instant.

Do great expectations sabotage greatness?

No, but they can distort it.

Can a binge on fudge-rich, instant-order entertainment truly nourish us?

Yes, but only with a proper digestif. Here’s one, on the rocks: The new 15-episode season of Arrested Development is staggering in its ambition, surgical in its execution and diabolical in its conclusion. It’s a chore to watch and a delight to decrypt. Its overwhelmingness contributes to its initial underwhelmingness. But in time, with a moment to reflect, it begins to feel like the fullest and fraughtest expression of its form.

It is, in a perverse way, the Ulysses of sitcoms.

First, its ambition. Even as it undermines its own pretension with pratfalls and vulgarities, Season 4 is a brazen attempt to map the thorny overlap between human isolation and human interdependence. The prideful ego of family good guy Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman at his wits’ end), the slothful id of his older brother GOB (Will Arnett at his oiliest), the bizarre compulsions of family members around them — every character flaw is exaggerated into malfunction for the sake of conflict.

But instead of broadening their cleverness for a wider audience, show creator Mitchell Hurwitz and his crackerjack writers have sharpened it, further carving out the transactional, deceitful nature of the Bluths’ relationships. The heavy viewing experience feels literary, not cinematic. Its meta-ness calls to mind novelist Italo Calvino, for whom the digesting of a story was sometimes part of the story itself.

As long as we’ve got our literature degrees out, shall we make a comparison between infantile Bluth son Buster (the American treasure Tony Hale) and Benjy Compson of The Sound and the Fury? Or impose the broken-circle theme in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves on GOB’s spiraling self-medication with date-rape drugs (the phrase “Life is a roofie circle” appears in Episode 12)? Perhaps that’s going too far, but Episode 12 also uses a blood spatter to make a “Liza with a ‘Z’” reference. Absurdity is the ambition here.

Second, its execution. To create a jigsawed landscape of familial strife, Hurwitz and his writers use nine characters’ perspectives, eight hours of screentime, and Newport Beach’s “Cinco de Cuatro” celebration (instead of James Joyce’s Dublin walkabout) as a cauldron of character overlap. The show’s belly-laugh density has decreased in reverse proportion to its plot acrobatics, thematic echoes and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it jokes. Quiet references are made to “stimmy” money, for example, and the show trusts us to understand that this is the family’s term of endearment for federal stimulus funds the Bluth company received.

Season 4 is a fugue, not a symphony. To detail the plot would lead to madness. Suffice to say: While the first three seasons of Arrested Development drew topical inspiration from the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the fourth season hinges on building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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At the Epic 2.5 stars (out of four) Rated: PG

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Epic isn’t.

Still, the 3-D animated forest tale of ecological good vs. evil will entertain kids with colourful scenes of a charming miniature world where the good guys ride hummingbirds and the bad guy is menacingly voiced by Christoph Waltz. Scary!

But it’s hardly epic in scope or substance, with a by-the-book story of lippy teens trying out their wings while saving the world and learning various life lessons.

The crisp computer animation never manages to shake off its pixel origins, which makes Beyoncé Knowles-voiced Queen Tara look like she’s crafted from shiny moulded plastic, a refugee from an animated Barbie film.

The highlight of Epic is the comedy duo of the slug who fancies himself a ladies’ man (Aziz Ansari) and the wisecracking snail (Chris O’Dowd) who all but slither off with the picture — shades of Brad Pitt and Matt Damon as celebrity krill in Happy Feet 2. And parents will chuckle at Steven Tyler voicing party animal caterpillar Nim Galuu (relax, there’s no hookah).

Based on William Joyce’s 1996 kids’ book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs and directed by Chris Wedge (Robots, Ice Age), Epic is clearly inspired by charming Japanese animation The Secret World of Arrietty, with nods to FernGully and perhaps even Avatar.

We meet teenager M.K. (Amanda Seyfried) as

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Based on William Joyce’s 1996 kids’ book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs and directed by Chris Wedge (Robots, Ice Age), Epic is clearly inspired by charming Japanese animation The Secret World of Arrietty, with nods to FernGully and perhaps even Avatar. she arrives at the remote house and lab where her absent-minded professor father Bomba (Jason Sudeikis) lives and works. Her mom has died and she’s now stuck living with dad.

She seems a lot more bothered about her pop’s obsession with finding proof for his theory that the woods are populated by an advanced civilization of teeny-weeny beings than she is about the loss of her mother.

But that’s the cartoon world for you.

Similar eye rolling is coming from the forest in the miniature world of Moonhaven, where teen Leafman Nod (Josh Hutcherson) chafes under the scrutiny of father-figure soldier Gen. Ronin (Colin Farrell).

While the forest blooms and blossoms, the bad-tothe-bone, rat-skin wearing Boggans, led by Mandrake (Waltz), want to make everything decay. So when M.K. magically ends up shrunk down to Leafman size, she

gets a close-up view of the forest-floor struggle and jumps in to help.

There are a couple of cracking good chase scenes and some worthy comedy amid the fierce (bloodless) battles with the good guy Leafmen and whimsical flower-people residents against the evil Boggans.

And then there’s Ozzie, an over-anxious and chubby three-legged pug, who plays everything for laughs and has a starring role somewhere in his future.

Kids will easily latch onto the idea of rooting for the guys and gals in green while despising the scorched-earth policy of the rot-creating Boggans.

No room for a lesson on composting here.

Although the story isn’t always clear, it’s not hard to follow the thread. Just cheer for those in green, or anybody leaving a slime trail.

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Supernanny returns to unhappiest of homes

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES In her last TV incarnation for seven seasons as Supernanny, British import Jo Frost arrived at American homes in a black, London-style hackney cab and set about helping the fried parents of manic, misbehaving toddlers establish some order and discipline.

Frost dressed in a stern uniform — children were clearly intimidated — and dispensed the toughest sort of love; mostly she taught parents how to say no.

People with and without children (especially people without children) drew a certain smug satisfaction from the show, dovetailing nicely with the Internet’s troubling talent for gang-lecturing people right where it hurts most, in matters of family lifestyle, entitlement and parental shortcomings.

After a short absence, Frost has retired the supernanny shtick and returns Tuesday night in an admirably resolute but occasionally difficult new TLC reality series called Family S.O.S. With Jo Frost.

Here, the emphasis is on addressing a more prolonged set of child-rearing dysfunctions that have produced yard apes and terror teens. In addition to a whole lot of bratty “[bleep] yous” and slammed bedroom doors, Frost is drawn to root causes: marital spats, addiction issues and verbal and physical abuse. The whole gift basket.

Her first assignment takes her to Huntington Beach, Calif., where 55-year-old Don and 49-year-old Julie have made a disastrous attempt to blend families. Spiteful teenagers seem to be slumped in every corner here, hissing four-letter words at one another

and their parents, like a small army of Linda Blairs.

“I’ve been told [that] if I can’t help this family in one week, they will divorce,” Frost tells her viewers, and while that may provide a narrative hook to hang this on, it’s hardly an incentive to keep watching. “I don’t feel like this is real,” fumes 17-year-old Chad, who’s fighting a drug and alcohol addiction. “[It’s just] for some B.S. TV show.”

Two points for Chad, but minus 10 points for storming off. Frost is staying put, as is her TV crew, so everyone better shape up. Sixteen-year-old daughter Amber sneaks out to a booze party; Frost forces Julie to discipline the girl when she returns, and you might want to click the mute button while the lovely Amber screams it out.

The film crew, meanwhile, has a blunt taste for the ironic, zooming in on Julie’s decorative penchant for delusional tchotchkes: “Love is Spoken Here,” reads a wall hanging. (“I HATE YOU SO MUCH!” Amber screams again from her bedroom.) “A Daughter is a Special Gift From God.” For all its noise and uncomfy moments, Family S.O.S. is relatively genuine stuff, especially for the current incarnation of TLC. Viewers who know Frost’s previous work will have no trouble believing that she cares about the outcome and sincerely wants to help these families patch thing up. When they cry, she cries — and if it’s all an act, well, it’s a good act.

A different episode takes Frost to another Los Angeles suburb, where a husband and father is confronted with the fact that he avoids parenting duties

and has been borderline abusive to his brood, especially the mentally disabled son who struggles with toilet training.

When I say “This is hard to watch,” you are absolutely correct to thunder back, “Well, then why do you watch it?”

Because it’s life. Some of us are just endlessly interested in other people — more than we are drawn to nature documentaries or singing competitions.

We’re not snoops so much as amateur sociologists.

When Frost walks into the house, she asks to look around, so she can see where the bedrooms are and see where various family members spend most of their time.

She’s interested in kitchen tables and photos on the wall. The difference between Jo Frost and Gladys Kravitz — the nosy neighbor from Bewitched reruns, who remains fixed as a cultural symbol of disrespected privacy — has something to do with empathy; a curious and often heartbreaking empathy.

The scowling teenager with his arms folded is absolutely correct: Much of what’s happening here is affected and determined by the presence of Frost and her TV crew.

And yet, for those of us who want to know more about the family dynamic — in its entire spectrum, from comfort to estrangement — Family S.O.S. is a worthy endeavor.

Is it top-quality television? Compared with An American Family, no; but compared with shows about spoiled-rotten gypsy brides (a recent TLC fixation), you bet.

HBO’s VICE says it never expected to meet North Korean leader NEW YORK — The documentary crew that accompanied Dennis Rodman to North Korea over the winter says it had no idea it would meet the reclusive country’s young leader, Kim Jong Un, until he showed up at a basketball game it was filming.

The media company VICE arranged the trip and invited Rodman after its first choice, Michael Jordan, expressed no interest. A 30-minute documentary on the unexpected piece of basketball diplomacy will air on June 14 on HBO as the final episode of VICE’s first season, and was previewed for some reporters on Wednesday.

The North Korean leader loves basketball so much that he overlooked the government’s antipathy for VICE founder Shane Smith, who had made two critical documentaries on North Korea, and invited the crew in. Smith wasn’t allowed back but VICE’s Ryan Duffy accompanied Rodman and three members of the Harlem Globetrotters travelling basketball troupe.

“We just wanted to make a good documentary,” Smith said in an interview.

“We didn’t do it as a stunt.”

Duffy quickly learned his place: One of the first things one of his “tour guides” told him was, “I know who you are. I don’t like you and I don’t like your company,” he said Wednesday.

The crew was told when it could turn on its cameras and when they had to be off, and feared landing in a North Korean prison if it didn’t comply, he said.

The North Koreans did not go through the footage shot by the crew, however. Some 36 hours of film was cut down into the half-hour HBO show, and some may surface later as online extras.

The crew went through an elabo-

rate week-long organized tour of North Korea’s capital of Pyongyang, visiting a well-stocked mall with no other customers and the country’s version of Sea World. At one point, it was shown a classroom with students sitting behind computers, but only one person either knew how or was allowed to use one of the machines. One student sat before Google’s home page and never searched for anything, just moving the cursor back and forth randomly.

The tour was taken in the hopes of catching one or two glimpses of the real North Korean people, which the group finally achieved toward the end when its minders let the bus stop at a park and the Globetrotters played around with some of the kids, helping them learn to spin a basketball on their finger.

Duffy said the group was surprised when Kim arrived to watch what was essentially a pickup basketball game with the Globetrotters and some members of a North Korean youth team.

Rodman didn’t play; he sat in the stands watching with Kim. After the game, the VICE crew and players were rushed across Pyongyang unexpectedly for a dinner with Kim and other members of the North Korean government.

Although Rodman was key to securing the visit and played the most prominent role of any of the visiting Americans, he’s only a bit player in VICE’s documentary. Smith said Rodman declined to be interviewed about the trip by VICE afterward.

The American group brought in some basketballs and basketball equipment to distribute to young North Koreans, but wasn’t asked for anything else by its hosts, Smith said. VICE hasn’t spoken to anyone in the Obama administration about the trip, he said.

During the trip, the administration had refrained from commenting about it.

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Family getting fed up with manipulative mother-in-law Dear Annie: I have been married to there are no guarantees. Some people a wonderful man for 35 years and have are beyond reasoning with. terrific children and beautiful grandIt’s time to step back and let your children. husband handle his mother. As long as Our marriage has been great, except she believes she can control him, she for my manipulative and will do so.

MITCHELL emotionally blackmailing Your husband should try mother-in-law. to get his information about & SUGAR Our only fights have Dad through other sources stemmed from lies and and bypass Mom whenever made-up stories this woman possible. tells. She has destroyed reIt’s terribly sad, but you lationships with other family members cannot force her to be a better person. and blames me for it even when we (She sounds mentally ill.) live miles away.

Dear Annie: I am a skinny woman I support my husband in any deci- with large breasts. sion he makes regarding her, and I I know there is a crazy stereotype have never badmouthed her. that women like me are wild party She recently pulled the ultimate girls. scheme. Knowing that I had never I’m actually quite conservative. But met my son’s fiancee, my mother-in- other women seem to think it’s OK to law took it upon herself to tell her the poke my breasts or lift them, probably “truth” about me. to check whether they are real.

After a three-hour visit with my Last week at a party, some insuffersoon-to-be daughter-in-law and her able girl I just met turned the entire parents, the poor girl was in tears conversation to my breasts. when our son came home from work.

I walked away to cool off, but someOur son said if he hadn’t known the one overheard me say that the girl was truth, he would have believed his obnoxious. So “poking girl” started grandmother. shouting at me, and you can guess how She was very convincing and even the rest of the night went. brought on fake tears.

Annie, please tell your readers Our children are now so upset with that just because a woman has large their grandmother that they do not breasts doesn’t mean she wants to be want her near their kids, planting lies poked and prodded in public. in their minds.

Where have basic social graces I have tried to be the better person gone? — Staying Classy over the years, welcoming my motherDear Classy: You hang around with in-law into our home, giving her birth- some inappropriate, rather creepy day presents and even planning anni- women. versary parties when none of her other Your body, all of it, belongs to you. children could or would. But I’m done.

If someone touches your breasts, gasp My husband has confronted his in horror and perhaps yell loudly for mother many times regarding her de- the police. What nerve. structive behavior, but she says he Dear Annie: Thank you for recomdoesn’t see the “real” me. mending the NAMI Family-to-Family Now I worry that she is trying to class to “Parents at Wits’ End.” come between my husband and his faWhen I took that 12-week class, I ther, who is ill. learned so much about mental illness, My mother-in-law doesn’t return as well as finding support and hope our phone calls or tell us when Dad from other parents. is in the hospital. We hear everything I have no doubt my son is doing betthrough a third party, sometimes days ter because of it. — Grateful Mother after it happens.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy How do I handle this? — Daughter- Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ediOut-Law tors of the Ann Landers column. Please Dear Daughter: Perhaps if your hus- email your questions to anniesmailbox@ band had set stricter boundaries with comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, more dire consequences years ago, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, this situation would be better now, but Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Some studies have linked pregnant women’s cocaine use with children’s behaviour difficulties, attention problems, anxiety and worse school performance. But the effects were mostly small and may have resulted from other factors including family problems or violence, parents’ continued drug use and poverty, the researchers said.

They reviewed 27 studies involving more than 5,000 11- to 17-yearolds whose mothers had used cocaine while pregnant. The studies all involved low-income, mostly black and urban families. The review, led by University of Maryland pediatrics researcher Maureen Black, was released online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Widespread use of crack cocaine in the 1980s led to the “crack baby” scare, when babies born to crack users sometimes had worrisome symptoms including jitteriness and smaller heads. Studies at the time blamed prenatal drug use, suggested affected children had irreversible brain damage and predicted dire futures for them. These reports led to widespread media coverage featuring breathless headlines and heart-rending images of tiny sick newborns hooked up to hospital machines.

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Stamina kicks in when you know that you can Shields, 48 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Two planetary be part of a group. Team spirit is your motivachanges are occurring today. Mercury moves tion.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Social interinto Cancer suggesting a higher receptivity in actions increase and you find yourself sharing the self-expressive world.

We feel the words spoken on a very deep ideas with like-minded people. While your dailevel. We listen with more consciousness and ly life becomes more social and light-hearted, speak with more emotion. Mars in Gemini your discipline helps you put most of your endenotes that our energies are mentally driven ergy force into building a more solid future.

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You reminisce the good old days with your conversations and private talks will enlighten you further about your most personal issues. family which you long to relive again.

Don’t forget to use some diplomacy in It’s a beneficial time to dig into difficult subyour speeches as you might appear a bit ar- jects and to dissect them into little pieces of precious information. gumentative to others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Money pours are plenty of chores to complete and this in and money pours out just as easily. You are entering a time when expenses will run won’t intimidate you a bit. You will be meeting high and you will have a hard time maintain your daily obligations with tremendous willa good discipline. Communication is effective power and force. One-on-one alliances reveal making it easy for you to convey just about their side of the story.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You greet any messages.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Charm makes life and its pleasures head-on. It’s time to you quite a magnetic individual. Your stamina show off your individuality and what you are is in full bloom and your desires are strong. all about. Expose your creative side. Roar Your mind turns towards monetary matters. like a lion. There’s absolutely nothing wrong You are starting to put on paper your budget in being your own actor in your own fabulous and you examine more often your earning world.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Entertainpotential.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Interactions ment surely brings together quite a crowd. with others become more alive and dynamic. You have an innate talent which knows just As much as you might feel more at ease ex- what to say and how to say it. Your narrative pressing yourself, you will start investing your abilities captivate your audience with witty energies into more spiritual, quiet activities. jokes and fun gossip.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndiKeeping a lower profile will make you less cated astrologer/columnist.

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Against her husband’s wishes, and professionals’ advice, she removed Jake from special ed.

She decided, if nothing This is an amazing stoelse, her boy was going to ry, largely about an autisbe a kid! She drove with tic child who turned out to him into the country at be a genius, but there is a night and introduced him story within the story. There to the stars. She played would have been no genius jazz on the car radio and without the amazing insight danced with him. By day, and will of his mother. he ran in the sprinkler, he Kristine Barnett does not got mud on his feet. blow her own horn — she The change was immedirelates the life of Jake Barate and almost frightening. nett, her son, and how he He began to speak again was able to “break-out” of and read and add numbers. the withdrawal that accomEvery autistic child is panies autism. not going to turn into a gePEGGY In November 2001, Jake nius, but this true story perFREEMAN Barnett was three years old. haps shines some light on He had begun babyhood with why the autistic child withgreat promise, an affectiondraws. It suggests that tryate and curious baby who ing to make them “normal” talked early and generally charmed ev- thwarts a natural driving interest that eryone. He loved to line up matchbox goes unrecognized. toys in straight lines and he learned Kristine turned her daycare into the alphabet before he could walk. one for other autistics. She discovered At 14 months he began to change. their passions, large or small, and built He would fixate on sunbeams or sit on them. quietly and stare at a plaid blanket for You will love the story of how Jake long periods. got to university at nine years of age, His mother “felt that he was be- which began with his sitting in on an ing swallowed up” by something she astronomy class at Indiana Universitycouldn’t see.

Purdue University Indianapolis (and Early intervention is the word and knocking their socks off!). he was soon in a special education Kristine’s creed: We have to walk class, where the expectations of his de- barefoot in the grass, we have to eat velopment skills were very low. clean snow, we have to let warm sand Kristine has several strengths: she run through our fingers, we have to lie was raised in an Amish family with a on our backs and feel the sun on our strong work ethic, she was mentored faces. by a wonderfully creative grandfather Success is relative — one child’s and she is a natural educator. success may look small against that of Jake’s father, Michael, is a wonder- another child. ful support, though not always agreeThis is such a wonderful, hopeful ing with Kristine’s plans. tale, about a gifted boy and his amazThrough all this family upheaval, ing mother.

Kristine had two more sons, and ran a Peggy Freeman is a local freelance daycare out of their home. books reviewer.

BOOK REVIEW

And the Mountains Echoed Riverhead Books

by Khaled Hosseini My main goal in reading Khaled Hosseini’s new book, And the Mountains Echoed, was to avoid crying. I failed within the first 20 pages. And by the last page, I was bawling.

So, yes, much like Hosseini’s earlier works, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, his latest book is bathed in sadness and despair, with the requisite occasional ray of hope. Much like those other two books, And the Mountains Echoed is powerful and haunting. And much like the country it describes, it is not easy to forget.

Hosseini, whose previous books have sold tens of millions of copies, approached his latest novel in a stylistically different manner than The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

The result is akin to a collection of short stories from pre-2001 and post-2001 Afghanistan.

Each chapter focuses primarily on one character, but all are somehow linked, even if tenuously, by the book’s central tragedy: a young boy’s loss of his beloved sister, who is given up to a far wealthier family. That loss is conveyed so subtly — even with what in

retrospect turns out to be a huge clue — that it is bewildering and devastating once fully understood.

Because of its sprawling nature — it spans decades and hops beyond Afghanistan to France, America and other places, including an imaginary one — the book manages to touch on a range of sensitive topics, from homosexuality in pre-Taliban Afghanistan to the guilt and apathy felt by successful Afghan exiles about their homeland.

The characters include foreign aid workers, the naive son of an Afghan warlord and a fish-out-of-water poetess, among others. One of the most powerful segments is a Q&A from a French journal. Ultimately — and yes, it’s a cliche, but so what — the stories are about love in all its manifestations, even a manifestation that at first seems like hate.

I often squirmed as I read “And the Mountains Echoed.” Like when the self-promoting, corrupt jerk of a character ends up being the one who helps the person in distress. Or when a child learns to accept, even welcome, the comforts bequeathed to him by his thief of a father. Many of the questions the book tackles involve ends, means and justifications, as well as sustainability

JOHN LEONARD AWARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A new literary prize has been established in honour of one of the country’s most passionate book critics.

The National Book Critics Circle announced Wednesday that starting in 2014 the John Leonard Award will be given for the year’s best debut book.

Leonard, who died in 2008, was known for championing authors early in their careers. Among those he supported: Nobel laureate Toni Morrision and Woman Warrior writer Maxine Hong Kingston. Leonard wrote for The New York Times, The Nation and other publications. The book critics circle, which already gives out prizes for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and criticism, was founded in 1974.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — After decades of decline, independent bookselling has become a growth industry.

For the fourth year in a row, membership has increased in the American Bookseller Association, the independent stores’ trade group. According to CEO Oren Teicher, the association now includes 1,632 members — some operating in multiple locations — up 65 from last year. In 2009, there were 1,401 members and strong pessimism in the face of superstore chains, the online power of Amazon.com and the recent financial crisis.

Teicher notes the liquidation of Borders in 2011, but also credits the ongoing “buy local” movement and independents’ growing comfort with modern technology, whether for more efficient inventory systems or more effective online promotion. Another positive sign: Established stores, such as the Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Ill., have made successful transitions to younger ownership.

“There was a time when people were ready to retire and couldn’t sell their stores, so they closed them,” Teicher says. “The fact that these stores are now remaining bodes well for the future.”

Teicher and others see a reversal from the peak days of Barnes & Noble and Borders, when nonstop superstore expansion often forced out the smaller stores.

Now, the problem has shifted from saturated neighbourhoods to underserved neighbourhoods. Industry analyst Mike Shatzkin cites not just the fall of Borders, but also the “sharp reduction in shelf space for books at B&N.” Shatzkin says demand for physical books is declining, but that physical stores have been shrinking even faster.

“So the incumbents benefit and that means independents,” says Shatzkin, founder and chief executive of Idea Logical, a consultant to publishers.

Independent sellers and superstores will gather this week along with thousands of publishers, writers, agents and librarians for the industry’s

‘THE YEARS OF SPECTACULAR SHARE GROWTH FOR E-BOOKS ARE OVER. THE RISE WILL BE STEADY FOR A LONG TIME, BUT IT WON’T BE EXPLOSIVE.’ — MIKE SHATZKIN INDUSTRY ANALYST

annual national convention, BookExpo America. The event runs ThursdaySaturday at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Featured speakers will include historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bridget Jones novelist Helen Fielding and a star among teens, Divergent author Veronica Roth.

The book world meets at a moment of relative calm during an age of revolutionary change. Overall sales are steady and the e-book market is growing at a slower pace — a helpful trend for physical stores. “The years of spectacular share growth for e-books are over. The rise will be steady for a long time, but it won’t be explosive,” says Shatzkin, who adds that art books and other illustrated works are simply not “e-bookable.”

At this time last year, the industry was wondering about the impact of a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit filed in April 2012 against Apple and five leading publishers alleging price fixing for e-books. Apple’s iBookstore, launched in 2010, established an “agency model” for selling e-books.

With Apple, Amazon and other retailers, publishers were able to set their own prices, a response to Amazon’s charging just $9.99 for bestsellers. Publishers, writers and rival bookstores had feared that Amazon’s discounts would lead to its domination of the emarket.

The trial is set to begin on Monday, just days after the convention. But all five publishers have settled and Amazon.com has neither radically dropped prices nor, publishers say, taken away a significant number of customers from competitors.

Eckville-area author publishes science fiction Heaven’s Gate

Khaled Hosseini’s new book another tear-jerker THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Independent book sales on the rise again in U.S.

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

versus survival.

Hosseini’s latest book is not an easy read, but it is a quick one because you won’t be able to put it down. To those readers who manage to get through it without shedding a tear, well, I tip my hat.

Online: http://khaledhosseini. com/

When caring for patients in their last moments of life, registered nurse Deborah Leitch often wondered, where does “life energy” go when it’s no longer needed by the body?

Reflections on that question led Eckville-based Leitch to write her first science fiction book, Heaven’s Gate, which is now available in paper and digital versions on Amazon.com.

Heaven’s Gate, set in Leitch’s native New Brunswick, is about what happens when a physicist attempts to dis-

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“The diversion of life energy from its intended destination starts to have grave consequences for the town and an age-old secret that has been protected by the natives since the beginning of time is uncovered,” said Leitch, whose novel ultimately reveals “the purpose of life” to characters.

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(nee Hermary) Dubrule Bernadette A Memorial Mass will be offered on Sunday, June 2, 2013 for the late “Bernie” Debrule, at 9:00 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church, Red Deer, and followed by brunch at the North Hill Inn. Come and “break bread” together and share memories.

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BAIRD Dorothy Lillian Dec. 29, 1929 - May 28, 2013 SOLEY Leona On May 24, 2013, Leona died, with grace, in the Red Deer Hospice. She leaves behind her children, Susan ( B r e n t ) H e n l e y, S h e l a g h (Robert) Giesbrecht, Flora Jeannie Soley (Thomas Carnegie), Bruce Soley (Catherine Owen), grand c h i l d r e n L i a m a n d Wr e n Henley, Daniel Giesbrecht, Isobel and Jack Carnegie, sister Iris (Iain) McLeod, brother David Hopkins (Edith Kinzel), sisters in law Norene Hopkins, Maureen (Greg) McFetridge and Bernice Soley, as well as a large extended family. She was predeceased by her husband o f 5 6 y e a r s , B i l l S o l e y, b r o t h e r Tr e v o r H o p k i n s , s i s t e r B e t t y Yu s e p , a n d parents Ivor and Margaret Hopkins Leona was born in Vermillion on October 26, 1932, spent her childhood on the farm and then in Edmonton. At the age of 13 she moved with her family to Lacombe where she met the young and handsome Bill Soley whose family had just moved to Lacombe. She molded her life around their partnership, music, community service and lifelong friends.

For decades, Leona directed the St Andrew’s choirs , sang in the Red Deer College C h o i r, a m o n g o t h e r s , performed in local operettas and sang as a soloist for hundreds of church and community occasions. Before she and Bill started their family, Leona worked at the Lacombe Research Station where she made lifelong family friends. Later on she became the first Teachers’ Aide in the county, and afterward became librarian for the Lacombe Junior High School where she worked until she and Bill retired. Leona was incredibly musical, artistic, loyal, gracious, beautiful, always true, strong of character, not to mention a fantastic cook and a masterful gardener. She was ever to be counted upon and will be most dearly missed. A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 p.m., Monday, June 3, 2013, St Andrew’s United Church, Lacombe.

Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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HEMING Dempster “Babe” 1916 - 2013 Dempster “Babe” Heming of Red Deer, went to be with his Lord on Monday, May 27, 2013 at the age of 96 years.

Babe was born in Moose J a w, S a s k a t c h e w a n a n d married Fran, the love of his life, in 1941. He proudly served in WWII and spent his working years with CP Rail until his retirement, when they moved to Red Deer to be with their family. Babe committed his life to Christ early in life and has served the Lord faithfully ever since.

Babe is survived by his loving wife of 71 years, Frances, his daughter Heather Mullen and her husband Mel; grandchildren Jachin and Rebecca Mullen and Chad and Christy Carritt; as well as by six great-grandchildren, Jade, Davin, Levi, Ava, Jude and Matthew. Babe is also survived by his brothers Arthur (Faye), Jim, Al (Phyliss), brother-in-law; Al Freeman and numerous nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.

Babe was predeceased by his brothers George, Phil (Bea), Len (Marion) and sister-in-law Wilma. In honour of Babe’s life, a service of celebration will take place at his home church, Word of Life Centre, south end of Ta y l o r D r i v e o n E n g l a n d Way, Red Deer on Friday, May 31, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care Joelle Valliere and Gary Anderson, Funeral Directors at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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MITCHELL Kenneth It is with heavy hearts that the family of Kenneth Mitchell announces his passing on May 29, 2013 in Red Deer, AB. Ken (Whiskers), was born on October 16, 1939 in Spiritwood, SK. At his request, no service will be held. On Ken’s behalf, his wife Deloris would like to thank all those who were a part of his life and whom have filled his life with lasting friendships, kindness, generosity, smiles, and unforgettable memories.

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A Night of Provocative Discussion Featuring John W. Loftus and Dr. Randall† Rauser, discussing twenty of the most common and controversial questions around the existence of God.

Unity Baptist Church (139 Northey Ave.) June 4th, 7:00- 9:00 p.m.

Card Of Thanks STOCK The family of Raymond Stock wishes to convey our sincere thanks to our family and friends.

Thank you for the support, food, cards and flowers.

You have helped in making a difficult time a little easier.

Special thanks to the doctors and nurses in the ICU and Palliative Care units at the Peter Lougheed Hospital.

You are truly special people.

Thank you also to Peter Lougheed Hospital where Raymond was employed, and the union in which he was an active member.

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If you are prepared to share your home, provide supports to a female individual with a developmental disability, and contribute to a person’s “Quality of Life” we would like to talk with you.

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S a n d r a M a r i n g e r o f R e d ARTISANS & VENDORS Deer, formerly of Pembroke, NEEDED FOR Ontario, passed away peaceAUTHENTIC FARMER’S MARKET fully on Tuesday, May 27, 2013, at the age of 66 years. Be part of a busy village on Saturday, June 15th Sandra was a wonderful AS YOU COME WALK mother, grandmother and AMONG US, IN ALIX sister, and a very loving, Sell your artwork, c a r i n g p e r s o n . S h e i s handcrafted items, baking, preserves, etc. survived by her two sons; Book a table indoors or Terry (Debbie) and Dennis from 9:30-3 ($10) (Marie), one daughter, Kristine, outdoors by calling Donna at and four grandchildren whom 403-747-2584 she dearly loved. She will be The days events include: Historical walking tours, lovingly remembered by her sisters; Dawn (Jack) Howard heritage demonstrations, food, horse & wagon of Pembroke, ON., Joanne of greatrides, live music, Moncton, NB., and Linda an antique car show (Russ) Henderson of Springand a real polo game. b r o o k , A B . , a s w e l l a s For more information see www.villageofalix.ca several nieces, nephews, and aunts. Sandra was EAST 40TH PUB predeceased by her parents; presents Ernest and Hilda Bimm. A Acoustic Friday’s Memorial Service for Sandra Various Artists will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 EAST 40th PUB Street, Red Deer, on Monday, BLUES JAM Sunday’s 5-9 p.m.

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You are at peace, Sandra, and will be forever loved and never forgotten. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL GOD or GODLESS? 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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BRADEN Gordon Wesley On May 25th 2013 Gordon Braden passed away in the arms of the angels at the Bashaw Care Center and was granted blessed peace.

He lives on through his children Barbara Stevens, Jessie Trace (Neil), Wesley Braden (Holly) and Brenda Knight (Leonard), 14 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, 12 great, great grandchildren and his sister Lenore Zacharwicz.

He was reunited in heaven with his loving wife Gerturde, infant daughter Margaret Rose, daughter Joyce and her 3 infant sons, granddaughter Melanie, 9 brothers and 1 sister. He will be missed by all who knew and loved him, during his 98 years he touched the hearts and lives of many people. As a young man he left his native Manitoba and came West “riding the rails” during the depression years. He settled in Central Alberta where he met his wife Gertrude Martin. They were married in 1938 and raised their children on the Martin family farm where he continued to live until he was 95 years of age. A funeral service will be held on June 1, 2013 at 2:00 pm at Wilsons Funeral Home and Crematorium in Lacombe. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca.

In lieu of donations the family requests that you take a loved one for a drive through the beautiful countryside and have lunch. Dads favorite past time was a Sunday drive on any day of the week.

WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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FOUND - white, curlyhaired dog in the Rosedale area. Male, no tattoo or collar.

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It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Dorothy Baird. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband, John; children, G o r d o n ( J a n ) , Te r r y (George), Linda (Jim), Yvonne (Jim), Doug, Wendy (Chris), Lloyd (Annie), Penny (Terry) and John; sixteen grandchildren; fifteen great grandchildren; as well as other family and friends.

Dorothy was predeceased by her son, Allan; grandson, Ivan; parents, J. Leslie and Bertha Taylor; and brotheri n - l a w, S a m M c G u ff i n . A celebration of Dorothy’s life will be held on Monday, June 03, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. at Extendicare Michener Hill, 12 Michener Boulevard, Red Deer followed by a time of remembrance at Sunnybrook United Church, 12 Stanton Street, Red Deer. The family would like to thank Dr. Colin Holmes, the caregivers and nurses on house 2600 at Extendicare Michener Hill, and the caregivers who cared for Dorothy in her own home. If desired, memorial donations in Dorothy’s honor may be made directly to the Canadian Lung Association, #2, 4342 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 3Z6.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com

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CAT LOST in LANCASTER, all black, ear tattoo ZVO213. Her name is Rue. Please contact 403-896-0328 if you see or have her.

LOST: Beige Alaska Jacket, possibly left at Tim Horton’s.

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ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs.

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AN OIL COMPANY is seeking a contract operator with a minimum of 3 -5 years related oilfield experience for its operations in the Rocky Mountain House area. Successful candidate can expect an 8 hour/day shift on a 10 & 4 rotation. Applicants must possess all required tickets to operate and must supply truck, cell phone, cell phone booster, standard tools, 4 head monitor, complete set of PPE and computer. Interested applicants must please e-mail resume, references and current safety training certificates to: tor@gmail.com

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

Oilfield

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CLASS 1 LOW BED TRUCK DRIVER HINTON, ALBERTA

Alstar Oilfield is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our Team.

Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969.

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators • * Experienced Production Testing • Assistants

If you have….

Minimum 5 Years with Class 1 Low Bed Experience hauling Cats, Excavators, and Side Booms Clean Abstract Winch Tractor Experience Off Road Oilfield Experience

• If you are a team player • interested in the oil and • gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract If you Desire to be and current safety certificates to the following: Part of a Growing Company Please email your resume Fax 403-887-4750 to: hr@alstaroilfield.com lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca Or fax to 780-865-5829 Please Quote Please specify position Job # 1036 on Resume when replying to this ad.

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

EXPERIENCED OILFIED GRADER OPERATORS REQ’D. Must have all safety tickets.

Competitive wages.

Call 403-502-1091

“Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while providing quality energy construction solutions”

PROFLO is currently seeking qualified PRODUCTION TESTING ASSISTANTS All candidates must have a valid driver’s licence, transportation, H2S, first aid & PST or CSTS. Email resume to: info@proflo.net or fax to: 403-341-4588 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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CONTRACT Financial Controller for family-owned construction company.

Proficient with Simply Accounting, Excel, and Word Software.

EXPERIENCED Responsible for monthly Oilfield Construction account reconciliations Lead Hands including: Central Alberta Residence * bank NOW HIRING FOR: Society, a CARF * Accounts Receivable Experienced Oilfield Equipment accredited agency has Payable Oilfield Construction Operator/Mechanic long been recognized for ** Accounts GST - Class 3Q Driver license Labourers providing “Quality” support * Capital assets w/clean abstract required services to individuals with * Inter company accounts Diesel mechanic developmental disabilities. * Loans/capital leases Industrial Painters experience or ticket req’d. * Prepaid Expenses Picker & Rig We are currently seeking Alstar Oilfield is looking for a experience preferred to fill a number of positions * Preparation of monthly highly motivated individuals - Drug testing required which are necessary in to join our Team in both consolidated financial Competitive pay order to maintain the Hinton and Fox Creek. statements w/ benefits level of supports we have * Preparation of semiAlstar has been serving the Fax or Email resume only: come to be known for. oil and gas construction monthly payroll, monthly Admin@chcinc.ca industry since 1969. payroll remittances, or fax: 403-343-3626 Successful candidates record of employment Suitable applicants will be responsible to If you have a Desire to be forms and T4s. will be contacted. provide personal support, * Administration of payroll Part of a Growing Company supervision, and training in Please email your resume benefits Looking for a new pet? accordance with individuals * Preparation and filing of to: hr@alstaroilfield.com Check out Classifieds to needs and aspirations, Please Quote monthly GST returns. find the purrfect pet. within their home Job # 1035 on Resume * Preparation of annual and community.

WCB return For detailed job description * Preparation of subcontractor Applicants should posses Please email T5018s prior experience in the hr@alstaroilfield.com * Previous exp. in the human service field, Or visit our Career Section construction industry ideally providing at: www.alstaroilfield.com would be an asset. community based supports. * Preparation of April 30th Experience with dual “Committed to enriching the year-end working paper Road Train Oilfield diagnosis, dementia, lives of our workforce, while files for external Transport Ltd unique challenges or providing quality energy accountants is looking for journeyman personal care are definite * Attention to detail construction solutions” picker operator.Top wages/ assets. Hours of work vary, * Exc. communication skills Central Alberta’s Largest benefits. Safety tickets req’d. with shift work and * Approx. 55 hrs. per Fax or drop off resume alternating weekends Car Lot in Classifieds month with the ability to 403-346-6128 No phone calls. generally required. provide additional hours as needed.

You can sell your guitar What some of our employees Fax resume to 403-309-1944 LOCAL SERVICE CO. for a song... say about their work: REQ’S EXP. VACUUM or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Something for Everyone • Focus is on the individuals TRUCK OPERATOR and we’ll sell it for you!

Everyday in Classifieds served Must have Class 3 licence Something for Everyone • Everyday is different; w/air & all oilfield tickets. everyday is fun Everyday in Classifieds Fax resume w/drivers Restaurant/ • Excellent & supportive abstract to 403-886-4475 Hotel coworkers SITE SAFETY • Respected and valued LOCAL Testing company SERVICES INC. CALKINS CONSULTING for the work I do seeking experienced Well Currently accepting o/a Tim Hortons Testers. resumes for the following: • Opportunity to provide FOOD SERVICE input, have say in service Positions available SUPERVIISORS $13/hr. delivery immediately.

Assistant Manager 4 positions. Apply at Day/Night Supervisors & Senior Safety Supervisors • Making the day mean6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer ingful for people Assistants.

Health & Safety Manager Fax: 403-782-9685 • Flexibility MUST HAVE valid H2S Shop Labourers Call 403-341-3561 and First Aid. or apply in person If this sounds like a place Competitive wages and All applicants must have you can see yourself health benefits. current safety tickets for DRAGON City req’s P/T or working, contributing Email resumes and tickets position applied for.

F/T Servers. Please apply to the “Quality” support to: welltesting365@gmail.

Email resume and in person to Sam. provided, we would like to com Safety Tickets to: hear from you. sitesafe@telusplanet.net JOSE JOSE LATIN RIG WORK No phone calls please.

RESTAURANT IS HIRING!!

Direct resumes/applications to: VACUUM/WATER Looking for a Start your career!

C.A.R.S. WAITRESS/WAITER TRUCK OPERATORS See Help Wanted #101 - 5589 47 St. Please drop off your NEEDED Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 resume at #9 7110-50 Ave Celebrate your life Scheduled days off.

Fax: 403-346-8015 or call 403-986-5673 with a Classified Fax resume & drivers Email: markw@carsrd.org abstract to 403-786-9915 ANNOUNCEMENT Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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Netook Construction Ltd. is a heavy equipment contractor based in Olds, Alberta with an operating history of over 35 years. Netook Construction Ltd. is currently seeking a

CIVIL EARTHWORKS FOREMAN

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with several years’ experience in road construction.

We are looking for an individual who has the ability to provide quality and service in a fast-paced environment, work independently, and can contribute to the success of Netook’s current and future goals.

The qualifications and responsibilities for the position include: • 7 to 10 years’ experience in civil projects (municipal and highway construction). Require earthworks knowledge from start to finish.

• Coordinate and organize equipment, personnel/crews, materials. Supervise crews of approximately 20 to 25 people.

• Strong communication, interpersonal, time management and organization skills.

• Promote a safe work environment, ensure safety of crews and compliance in areas of safety policy and procedures.

A competitive compensation package including benefits is available.

Please apply with resume with references to careers@netook.ca or fax (403) 556-6231.

No phone calls please.

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PERFORMING ARTS OPERATIONS MANAGER Central Alberta Theatre (CAT) needs a F/T Operations Manager to manage the Red Deer Memorial Centre Theatre and the adjoining CAT Studios. A graduate from a recognized theatre management or arts administration program or equivalent, is required, with substantial related experience. Visit www. centralalbertatheatre.ca for a job description or mail catstudioemp@gmail.com.

Email resumes to Paolo Mancuso, President, at catstudioemp.@gmail.com until June 14.

Restaurant/ Hotel

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced P/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

POST-TIME LOUNGE is now accepting resumes for Bartender/Waitress Apply w/resume 3731 50 TH AVE. No phone calls please.

820 KFC requires

DELIVERY DRIVERS

Daytime, Evening, FT & PT Shifts Available

Apply by: Fax: (403) 341-3820 or in person at Downtown KFC 4834-53 St., Red Deer

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Fairview - Upper

Morrisroe

West Lake

1 ALEXANDER CRES Thurs. 30th & Fri. 31st, 3-6, Sat. 1st, 9-4 Wine making equip., ice fishing equip., household, tools & more.

MULTI-FAMILY SALE at the Fountain’s Condo Assoc.

4700 Fountain Drive.

Gates open May 30, 4-7 p.m.

May 31, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Across from Bower Ponds, next to the RD Golf & C.C.

GIANT KNIGHTS of COLUMBUS Garage Sale Saturday, June 1, starting at 8:30 am St. Mary’s Catholic Church Parking Lot. 6 McMillan Ave. R.D. A large assortment of household items.

131 WYNDHAM CRES. May 31& June 1 Fri. 12 - 8 & Sat. 9 - 4 Garage at FULL Capacity!

5 t.v.’s, tools, bookcase, quad cover, fountain, toys, table fire dancer, movies.

Really there is so much stuff DONT MISS Sat. 1/2 off!

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Aspen Ridge 55 ASSINGER AVE. GMC hubcaps Bumperettes, bulk telephone and HD EXT cord wire, scroll saw, B & D stud finder, comp. keyboard, vintage glass lamps, door knobs, cabinet knobs and hinges, outdoor decor, tap cartridges, BBQ parts, Collier and misc. books, heat guns, door, more. Fri. May 31 ONLY. noon - 6 pm.

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Highland Green 16 HART CRES. May 30, 31 & June 1 Thurs. 4-8, Fri. 5:30 - 8 Sat. 9-2 : Car, washer, furniture, electronics, books, household misc.

Inglewood

HUGE Multi-Family Sale 18 METCALF AVE. Thurs. 30th 2-7, Fri 31st 10-7 & Sat 1st, 9-4 Clothing & misc.

Oriole Park #34 6220-Orr Dr. Sat. June 1, 9-5, Sun. 9-5. Party-Lite, crystal, books, household, fabric, purses, car speaker box and more

116 ISHERWOOD CLOSE JUNE 4, 5 & 6 Tues., Wed., & Thurs. 10-8 Camping & sporting good, household and much mor.

120 OAKWOOD CLOSE May 30, 31 & June 1. 10-6.

Children & household, computer/electronics, snow blower (Craftsman), collectibles, much more.

122 DUNCAN CRSC. Thurs. May 30, noon - 7, Fri. & Sat. 10-7 Moving sale, everything must go!

52 ISHERWOOD CLOSE May 31st & June 1st Fri. 4 - 9, Sat. 10 - 4 Baby clothes, toys, sports equip. solid oak kitchen set

Pines

32 DOWLER STREET Saturday 1st, 9-4 Multi-family / Moving Sale A little bit of everything!

Lancaster Green

Deer Park

4 DREVER CLOSE May 30 & 31 Thurs. & Fri. 2 - 7 MULTI FAMILY See Kijiji Ad. MULTI FAMILY 38 DUFFIELD AVE. Fri. 1-8 pm, & Sat. 9-6 pm Misc. items, children, household & much more!

66 & 70 LEWIS CLOSE Friday 31st, 12-7, & Saturday 1st, 9-3 Multi-Family/Moving Sale Wide variety of items.

Morrisroe 35 MCLEVIN CRES. Fri. 31st, 5-8 & Sat. 1st, 9-4 I guarantee you will see things at this sale you have never seen before.

West Park Estates 3 FAMILY SALE 33 WILTSHIRE BLVD. Sat. 1st 10-5 & Sun. 2nd 10-3 Household, furn., clothing, tools, oak armor, music, Motorhome, etc.

Blackfalds MULTI-FAMILY SALE 156 Westview Cres. Blackfalds Fri. 31st 3-9, Sat. 1st 9-4 Golf, craft, material, dishes, household, potato bins.

Everything must go!

Springbrook 25 & 33 PAMELY AVE Fri. May 31, 4-7:30 Sat. 9-2. Sports,, household items, antiques, furniture, Japanese lacquer, garden Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Rosedale 151 Roberts Crescent Sat. June 1, 9 - 5 p.m.

Movies, antiques, and misc. items.

SERENITY PET SHELTER is holding a Garage Sale/Barbecue June 1st and 2nd from 10am-4pm.

Lots of great stuff!!

Directions: HWY 2A South to Springbrook. Turn East on TWP 372. Go to first RR 275 and turn North. 3rd acreage on the left 37216 RR 275

Sylvan Lake 51 FERN GLADE CRES. Sat. June 1st, 9-4 Household, glassware, baby equip., baby clothes, etc. Come on down for gently used items.

Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you. Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:

Class 1 Driver / Operators: Fracturing, Nitrogen, Coiled Tubing, Cement and Acid; Supervisor Cement and Acid; Apprentice Heavy Equipment Technician; Parts Technician Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety-focused

f Team orientated f Clean Class 1 drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset

Why Canyon? f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New Equipment

f Paid technical and leadership training f Career advancement opportunities f RRSP matching program

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

How to apply: email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 31, 2013 E3

1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Extreme Energy Hiring Salespersons Parkland Mall, Red Deer, AB. Good English and communication skills, Customer service oriented.

F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends. Salary $14./hr E-mail: Reachiesales@gmail.com Sunterra Meats Ltd. in Trochu is looking for a Sales Manager or Sales Manager Trainee. Successful candidate needs to have good computer skills, good communication skills and be able and willing to learn a new position. Previous experience in Sales is preferable. On the job training will be provided.

Competitive salary and benefits. For more information call Trish at 403-442-4202. Interested applicants send resume to trish.hyshka@sunterra.ca, fax to 403-442-2771.

WEST 285 Ltd. o/a Perfume from the Ocean & Cosmetics in Red Deer, req’s F/T Shift Supervisor w/1 - 2 yrs. exp. $17.50/hr. Email: west285ltd@gmail.com

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NOW HIRING

for work in Red Deer

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Carpenters & Labourers Apply at: Email: careers@ clarkbuilders.com Fax: 1-888-403-3051 www.clarkbuilders.com

BOOTS Transport Ltd. has openings for Class 1 drivers to run the 4 Western Provinces.

Min. 2 years driving experience required.

Wage between 40-70K per year.

Fax resume to Calgary 403-238-5811 or call 403-238-5755.

EXPERIENCED repair person req’d for local truck company. Work involves all aspects of heavy truck and trailer repair and dismanteling. Must be physically fit. HD Mechanic or equivelant experience We offer competitive wages, benefits weekends off. Fax resume to 1-855-784-2330 or call FILLED!

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CAPE Manufacturing Ltd. †is looking for: †

“B” Pressure & Journeyman Welders 2nd & 3rd Year Welding Apprentices Profit Sharing Plan & Group Benefits † resume@capemfg.ca

CUSTOM MUFFLER

Looking for apprentice or journeyman mechanic.

Pipe bending skills would be a great asset. Wages depend on exp. Going concern shop. Fax resume to:403-346-9909 or drop off at 2410 50 Ave. Phone 403-346-7911 ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE

3rd or 4th yr. Must have Residential experience.

Fax resume to 403-347-5745 EXP’D SIDER, must have truck and tools. We pay compensation & top dollar.

Call 403-347-2522 F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca FOUNDATION COMPANY in Red Deer is currently seeking Experienced Foundation Form Workers.

Please fax resume to 403-346-5867 H.D. MECHANIC req’d immed. for very busy heavy equip. sales lot in Innisfail. Wage range $25.

- $35/hr depending on exp.

Fax resume to 403-227-5701 or email bouvier9@telus.net

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LARGE roofing company in Red Deer is looking for person with approx 20 yrs experience in the residential shingling & exterior industry. Has abilities to detect deficiencies & correct leaks, perform preventative maintenance & warranty work.

Email resume to nickerson_shawn@ hotmail.com or fax to 403-346-7556 LOCAL drywall company looking for a shop hand / labourer. Must have valid drivers licence, vehicle, and PPE. Please fax resume to 403-346-7398 NEEDED F/T Service Person for after sales service and set up of manufactured and modular home. Must have exp. in roofing, siding, flooring, drywall, paint etc., Competitive wages and health plan avail. Apply to James at M & K Homes, 403-346-6116 PAINTERS NEEDED!!

Min. 5 yrs. exp. in new homes, own vehicle req’d, 403-304-4964 REQUIRE EXPERIENCED STONE MASON to start immed. Also seeking experienced LABOURER. Must have valid drivers license & own transportation.

Contact 403-358-6243

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS

EXPERIENCED HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS & CLASS 3 OR 1 TRUCK DRIVERS For the Red Deer Area.

Email: len.chinski@lafarge.com or Fax 403-347-8060

With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

F/T bricklayers and Laborers.

Must have own transportation. Fax resume to 403-340-0762 or email resume to tom@westernmasonry.com

WELDERS WANTED For Oilfield Manufacturing Facility

B PRESSURE JOURNEYMAN

2nd & 3rd Year Apprentice We are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic, goal orientated team players to join our fast paced growing team!

Vessel experience is an asset.

Please forward your resume to Fax: 403-347-7867

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CLASS 1 driver with fluid hauling experience, local runs. 403-373-3285 or fax resume and copies of all valid tickets to 403-986-2819

CLASS 1 drivers req’d for flat deck work. Steady year round work. Benefits, exc. wages and safety bonuses. Successful candidates must be hard working, must know your load securement and love driving as you will be traveling throughout BC, AB, SK & MB. Please fax resumes and drivers abstract to 1-855-784-2330 DRIVER with clean Class 1 or Class.2. Bus driver or semi driver exp. preferred Must be availl eves. and wknds. Looking for both P/T & F/T Fax resume to 347-4999 or email to: frontbus@platinum.ca

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Adult Education and Training

Spring Start

GED classes days/evening

Fall Start

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Palliser Chevrolet

SALES PROFESSIONAL

LANCASTER East half of Lampard Cres.

ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area.

ALSO Leonard Cres. & 1 Block of Lancaster Ave. ALSO Part of Lanterman Cres.

ALSO Lamont Close

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED To deliver the Morning Advocate.

6 days per week Vehicle needed DEERPARK Dowler & Douglas St. Area $605.00/mo Call Jamie 403-314-4306 For more information Customer sales/service

SUMMER WORK

Immediate openings, $16 base/appt., Conditions apply, no exp. nec., training given 403-755-6711 www.summeropenings.ca/

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“On the Auto Mile, Wetaskiwin”

PLUMBING & HEATING CORP.

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Casual Positions: Dietary Aid/ Housekeeping Must be able to work in a team environment.

Mandatory criminal record check for successful applicants. First Aid, WHMIS and Food Safe training an asset. Salary according to Union Scale.

Please apply in writing to Lisa Manning-Eaton, Lodge Manger, 4277 - 46A Ave. R,D, or by fax to 403-343-1728

Permanent P/T Dietary Evenings Must be able to work in a team environment.

Mandatory criminal record check for successful applicants. First Aid, WHMIS and Food Safe training an asset. Salary & benefits according to Union Scale.

Please apply in writing to Denise Cooper, Lodge Manager, 4820 - 33 St. R.D. or by fax to 403-343-1063

DSM INC.

looking for laborers, in the Innisfail area.

Salary is $14.75/hr. Fax resume to: 403-314-0676.

EARN EXTRA CASH!!!

The Red Deer Advocate is looking for friendly and outgoing telephone sales people to join our team.

Work 3-4 days per week 4:00 - 8 :00 p.m Great earning potential for the right person.

If this is for you please drop off your resume at: The Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer or email to: dsibbet@ reddeeradvocate.com or rholt@reddeeradvocate.com F/T sales and customer service associate, bilingual French/English an asset.

Hourly wage plus benefits. email: careers@buyairsoft.ca

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres./ Selkirk Blvd.

Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING

Broughton/ Brooks Cres.

Bettenson St./ Baines Cres.

Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St LANCASTER AREA Lewis Close/ Law Close

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s F/T kitchen staff, servers and front counter staff.

Must be avail. eves and wknds. Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

High Paying Entry Level Positions

$18.36/hr. + bonuses. Red Deer distribution company beginning 3rd. successful year of growth in the Red Deer area. We are currently seeking energetic individuals looking to get ahead. Positions include: Water quality advisers, customer service and general labor. P/T & F/T positions avail. Rapid advancement avail.

Please call between 10 am -6 pm 403-356-0330 IN SERVICE SHOP, exp’d with farm equipment and the ability to weld. Apply fax 403-341-5622

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JOURNEYMAN AUTO TECHNICIAN TO START IMMEDIATELY

Quality ingredients start with quality people.

LOOKING FOR A P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REP in a green drycleaning plant.

Must be able to work some evenings until 7 p.m. & some Saturdays.

Call Shannon 403-550-7440

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Now Hiring Customer Service Representative Act as first line of support for all distribution related functions for Chatters Salons Place salon orders document accordingly, issue credits, track discrepancies, communicate promotions, updates, weekly presells, store challenges & store input with appropriate personnel Communications with district managers, salon owners & managers, Chatters Distribution & Chatters Canada personnel Excellent customer service, communication, organizational, time management & interpersonal skills required Benefits, competitive wage, perks Apply with resume to: careers@chatters.ca Fax (403)347-7759 Online at www.chatters.ca TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

RESIDENTIAL APT MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex.

Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration.

Bondable. Reply to Box 1043, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 ROOFING LABOURER REQ’D. 403-314-9516 please leave a message. or 403-350-1520

Trail Appliances has always offered excellence in sales, delivery, customer service, and after-sales support.

The Company is currently looking to fill the following positions at our Red Deer locations.†

CONTRACT SALES ADMINISTRATOR P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REP

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OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

offers a variety of

SAFETY COURSES

Red Deer, AB

to meet your needs.

We are looking for a self-starter to operate a fuel truck to deliver product to our customers. Safe-handling training will be provided.

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

A valid Class 1 or 3 licence with airbrakes and relevant experience are required. Experience in handling dangerous goods in the Rocky Mountain House and/or Red Deer region is preferred.

Tracking number 2975.

Viterra offers a competitive salary and benefits plan.

The closing date for applications is June 14, 2013.

Visit Viterra.com to apply or for further information on career opportunities at our Regina Head Office and throughout our North American asset network.

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Viterra is an exciting and dynamic company that works directly with farmers to provide premium quality food ingredients to the world’s most discerning food manufacturers. Together, we seek to fulfill the nutritional needs of people everywhere.

403.341.4544 24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

Guided by our values of integrity, trust and respect, our goal is to achieve a workforce as diverse as the people we serve. We encourage aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, women, visible minorities and others to join our team!

Visit viterra.com

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is looking for an OFFICE FURNITURE INSTALLER If you have a clean drivers licence, are hard working, flexible and have a positive attitude this job could be for you.

Team work and a great work ethic is a must! This full-time position is for install and delivery of commercial furniture.

Please email resume to ac@lookeroffice.ca or drop off to #3-7429-50th Ave.

Employment Training

Fuel Truck Driver

This position involves all internal reconditioning of Innisfail & Sylvan Truck Ranch vehicles for resale.

No retail work.

We have a great shop, with great equipment.

If you want to work great hours and earn an excellent income with an excellent benefits package, apply now.

To apply, contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview. Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

LOOKER OFFICE FURNITURE

Trail offers excellent training and a competitive compensation and benefit package. Start your career with a well known and respected company, become a member of the successful Trail team by applying in person to: Chris Sturdy in person at 2823 Bremner Avenue Delivery Driver applicants apply to Colin Parsons at #6 4622 61 St. Riverside Industrial District.

Security checks will be conducted on successful candidates.

If you share our passion for quality at every level – in the work we do, in the products we sell, and the people we work with – then Viterra is the place for you.

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Fax Resume to 780-623-7451 or Email: sales@cpandh.ca

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APPLIANCE DELIVERY DRIVER

Plumbing & HVAC Service Technicians NEEDED!!!

This is a Monday – Friday position located in Lac La Biche, (furnished living accommodations provided for out of town employees) Clark’s has immediate openings for qualified, experienced heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) Technician and Plumbers. The successful candidates will: • hold a current Journeyman’s ticket • be experienced in all aspects of HVAC or Plumbing service • must pass a Pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening • Provide a current Drivers Abstract • be a motivated self-starter • take pride in doing great work and willing to work long hours if needed • be energetic, positive, and keen to work with a rapidly expanding company • be 100% dedicated to customer service and satisfaction Clark’s offers top wages,10% holiday/vacation pay, overtime after 8 hrs, training, Health and Dental packages.

We are a COR Certified and ISNetworld Compliant, safety-conscious company that provides a safe and enjoyable workplace.

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HYDROPONIC PLANTERS 30 outer containers, culture pots, water indicators & clay pellets. $75 obo.

403-342-0878

Is seeking to hire Shop Hand for our Red Deer location. This position is a fulltime and is a salary based position with company benefits. Duties include maintain shop and inventories, loading of trucks with fluid products and blending of KCl products in shop. This is a 24 hr on call basis position when on duty. Ideal candidate will have a mechanical aptitude with a class 1 license with fluid hauling experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com GRAYSON EXCAVATING LTD. requires experienced foremen, pipelayers, equipment operators, Class 1 drivers, topmen and general labourers for installation of deep utilities (water and sewer). Fax resume to (403)782-6846 or e-mail to: info@ graysonexcavating.com

Vanson Close/ Visser St.

dbrackenbury@denhamford.com or Fax 780-352-0986

Truckers/ Drivers

Anders St. Addinell Close/ Allan St. Abbott Close/ Allan St. Allan Close/Allan St. Allsop Cres.

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Clark’s

ANDERS AREA

BOWER AREA

If you wish to be part of Ford Canada’s most highly awarded dealer, Please forward your resume to Dean Brackenbury:

850

QUALIFICATIONS Successful applicants should hold a minimum of Level 1 NCCP certification & a current clean criminal record check. The successful applicant should have the ability to work well independently & in a team environment. The competitive salary range for this position is based on the candidate’s experience & credentials.

For more info., or to submit your cover letter & resume, please contact Scott by email at: kellyshimp@gmail.com We will contact only those applicants invited for an interview. Closing Date for application is Friday June 14th, or until a suitable candidate is found.

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

We offer a competitive pay plan with aggressive bonus structures, plus a moving allowance/ signing bonus.

Not all candidates will be contacted for an interview

The Ponoka Pool Sharks Swim Club is looking for an Assistant Coach for the 2013-2014 Season. Swim club has approx. 35 swimmers.

Training schedule runs Mon. to Thurs. 4 pm - 6 pm with optional morning workout, beginning in Sept. & ending with the provincial championships in April.

Club attends approx. 10 swim meets during the season.

CARRIERS NEEDED

We have 22 fully equipped service bays, state of the art equipment, and a positive supportive management team.

• Ongoing commitment to training • Benefits Plan

needed for the PONOKA POOL SHARKS in Ponoka, Alberta

NO EXP. NECESSARY!!

F.T. position available IMMEDIATELY in hog assembly yard in Red Deer. Starting wage $12/hr. Call Rich or Paul 403-346-6934

Due to unprecedented demand we need to add (2) techs to our service operations.

WE OFFER:

880

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Business is booming!!

• A team player with a commitment • Exceptional communication skills to exceptional customer service and (including computer literacy) satisfaction • Vehicle sales experience is an • A positive work attitude with strong asset but we are willing to train a work ethics suitable applicant

Email: jodwyer@palliserchev.com

DEER PARK AREA Dawson St. & 1 Block of Davison Dr. ALSO Dandell Close Davison Dr. & 2 blocks of Dowler St. ALSO Dunham Close ALSO Duncan Cres.

ALSO 3 blocks of West Duston St. & Dale Close ALSO Densmore Cres. & East part of Donnelly Cres.

Licensed, 4TH YR & 3RD YR TECHNICIANS REQUIRED

YOU OFFER:

PLEASE FORWARD RESUMES TO JAMES O’DWYER.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS

has an immediate opening for a

• Long established, respected dealership environment • Superior earning potential

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

850

Trades

Misc.

Help

ASSISTANT COACH

in

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

JOIN A GREAT TEAM!!!

Trades

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

Community Support Worker

830

Fax: 403-227-3195

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

ACADEMIC Express

Western Masonry Structures

880

Misc.

Help

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

INDUSTRIAL painter required for a sandblasting TRUE POWER ELECTRIC & painting shop. Must pass Requires drug/substance testing.

Fax resume to QUALIFIED 403-340-3800

Is hiring for the following positions:

850

Trades

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem)

278950A5

830

302679F2

Sales & Distributors

E4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 31, 2013

920

Career Planning

Auctions

1530

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

FREE

for all Albertans Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

1530

ANTIQUE AUCTION

Sunday, June 2nd, 1 p.m.

Moose Hall, 2 miles South of Ponoka, Hwy 2A. Drop leaf tables, round oak table, dressers, gramophone, wardrobes, glassware, tins, railroad lamp, large dinner bell, lamp lighter, clock, wash stand, piano stool, chairs, ladies hanky’s, old violins, lamps & lanterns, trunks, antique clothes, kitchen hooiser, old wooden box for back of antique car, copper boilers, galvanized wash tubs, oak display cases, old radios, garden benches, salt & pepper shakes, and much more.

Check website for full listing www.bigstrapperauctions.net

403-304-4791 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1640

Tools

Pine Lake, Alberta Sunday, June 16, 2013 Time: 1:00 p.m.

1660

1540

1590

2140

Supplies

1680

15’ LAUREL LEAF WILLOW 6-8’ NORTHWEST POPLAR & BROOK POPLAR Beautiful trees. You dig.

Please phone 403-302-1919 21” POULL Self Propelled Lawn Mower. $100. SOLD

Household Appliances

1710

298597E3-30

HEALTHCARE

Health Care Aide Medical Office Assistant Health Unit Coordinator Veterinary Administrative Assistant Dental Administrative Assistant and more!

1720

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Acreages/ Farms

3010

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

3 BDRM, 3 bath home , nice deck, new paint & carpet, for over 40 couple with no pets at 7316-59 Ave. Rent $1500/Sec. $1500.

Ph: 403-341-4627

8 LACEY CLOSE Beautiful Home

1730

290211C11-F25

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

1530

Ralph and Shirley Kenzle Red Deer, Alberta

Sunday, June 2 at 10 a.m. Sharp Location: From junction of Highways #11 and 596, west of Red Deer, go 10 km southwest on #596 (Burnt Lake Trail)

TRACTORS: John Deere 5300 Diesel Saddes, Saddle Bags, Hoof Trimmers,

Misc. Tack; Slide-In 8 ft. Stock Rack, 2 wheel training cart; Rubber Tired Farm Wagon c/w Pole; Horse Sleigh; Antique 1886 Emerson Single Bottom Breaking Plow; Bale Feeders, 10-10 ft.

Corral Panels; 10 ft. Panel Gate, 9’x15’ Twister Galvanized Livestock Shelter; Westeel 2 Ring x 6 ft. Hopper Bottom Feed Bin, 2 barrels of oats; Misc 4”-6” and 10” Pipe: 20 Sheets of 36” x 33 ft.

Galvanized roofing/siding.

1810

GORGEOUS KITTENS Calico, Orange, & Cream Colour. Free to good home.

403-782-3130

Cats

Public Auction

52” Rototiller; 7 ft. Double Disc; 5 ft.

Snow Blower; Danuser Post Pounder 3 pt 4 Wheel Hay Rake; Fertilizer/Grass Seeder; 6’ 3 Cultivator; 2 Bottom Plow; Small ATV Sprayer.

FARM MACHINERY: NH 660 Auto Wrap Round Baler NH 271 Square Baler; NH 12’ Hay Cutter; 7 ft. Mower; John Deere S/A Manure Spreader; 44 ft.; 14 ft, Disc t/a dual wheels; 12 ft.

JD DT Cultivator c/w mounted harrows 12 ft. Chain Type Pasture Harrows; 12 ft. HD 30” Land Packer (like new); 4 Sections Flex Harrows 10 ft. R.R. Iron Road drag.

HORSES - WORK TEAM: 6 & 7 Year

Old “Blonde” Belgian Geldings, full brothers, 2000 lb. plus weights, broke to hitch.

HORSE AND LIVESTOCK EQUIP.:

Good Set of Black Studded HD Leather Work Harness; Collars to 25”; 3 Stock

ROOM $600. Blackfalds.

All incld’d, furn. 588-2564

MUST SELL New 2 Storey 1550 sq.ft 3 bdrm, bonus room, 2.5 bath, $379,900. Dbl. att. garage. 403-588-2550

SMALL BDRM. Furnished. $450. 403-342-4604

MOBILE to be moved.

1998 Moduline 16x76. 3 NEW, classy 1286 sq. ft. bdrm., 2 bath, 7 appls.

Mobile bungalow, situated in a N e w f l o o r i n g , s k y l i g h t . quiet cul de sac in PONOKA. $75,000 obo. 403-506-9128 Lot Open plan with plenty of natural light, vaulted LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile ceilings, 2 bedrooms plus Income den and 2 full bathrooms. Property or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Upgrades include oak Excellent 1st time home cabinets, maple hardwood, NEW DUPLEX, 2 suites, buyers. 403-588-8820 gas fireplace, main floor for $389,900. 2000 sq.ft.

MOBILE HOME PAD, in laundry, mud room and 3 2 bdrm., 2 bath. Mason Red Deer Close to Gaetz, car garage. The roomy Martin Homes 403-588-2550 2 car park, Shaw cable incl. basement is ready for your Mauricia 403-340-0225 design. Please email secura@telus.net or call Cottages/Resort (780) 699 6866 for more Storage Property info. Only $379,000.

3190

4100

3320

Space

LAND only or quonset, Red Deer area 403-391-4144

1830

FREE to good home, 2 wonderful indoors cats, orange tabby brothers, 5 yrs. old, very social, food and access. incld.

403-341-5104 350-5524 KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY. 403-597-9243

HOUSHOLD EFFECTS: 2 Living

Room Suites; 7 Piece Wooden Dining Room Suite; Microwave Oven & Stand; numerous other household items.

VIEWING: SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1 - 5 P.M. 403-350-8446 AUCTION TERMS: Full and complete settlement on sale day, by cash or guaranteed banking funds.

GST will apply on all purchases.

3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1445 SD $1000 avail. July 1.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

WESTPARK

11/2 blocks west of hospital!

3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1245 SD $1000.

Avail. July 1, 403-304-7576, 347-7545

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit.

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

Red Deer, Alberta 403-347-5749 Cell: 403-302-0987

GOLF, SKI, HIKE, WATER SPORTS, etc.

WHITEFISH, MT.

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Houses For Sale

4020

REDUCED 486 Wishart St., Red Deer 6 yr old 3 bdrm + office/den 1300 sq. ft. bi-level. Maple hardwood, 5 piece ensuite with jetted tub, fireplace, wet bar, finished oversized garage, underground sprinklers, central vac, in-floor heat, water softener. Kitchen has maple cabinets, stainless appls, breakfast bar & pantry. Fenced yard, deck & ground level stone patio.

All appls. & window coverings incl. $ 472,000. Call 403-597-1149 or 403-304-8002

Townhouse in Mountain Park subdivision. Over 3700 sq.ft., 4 bedrooms & 3.5 baths. Features include 22’ vaulted ceiling in Great Room with floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, hardwood floors, Dacor stainless steel appliances, in-floor radiant heat, walk-out lower level & more. Slate spa shower & large walk-in closets with built-in cabinetry. House is fully wired for surround sound, security smart home. $599,900 For more information call 403-396-5516.

4090

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL

Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885 PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/ water. $685 avail.

June 1, no pets 403-348-6594 PONOKA, lrg. 1 bdrm apt. incld’s, laundry & all utils. $750. Avail. immed.

403-993-3441, 637-2591

486 Wishart Street. 6 yr old 3 bdrm + office/den 1300 sq. ft. bi-level. Maple hardwood, ensuite, fireplace, wet bar, garage, sprinklers, fenced yard, deck & patio & more. All appls. & window coverings incl. Reduced, $ 472,000.

Call 403-597-1149 or 403-304-8002

RAYMOND SHORES

GULL LAKE, 2012 Park model home, on professionally landscaped lot, fully furnished. Too many extras to list. 403-350-5524 for details.

CALL CLASSIFIEDS

309-3300

MOBILE TO BE MOVED. 1998 Moduline 16x76. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 7 appls. New flooring, skylight. $75,000 obo. 403-506-9128

TO ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY HERE!

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or Ron 403-318-3804 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 MAMMA MIA !!

Soffit, Fascia & Eaves.

403-391-2169 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia preferring non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Eavestroughing

1130

Escorts

1165

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

1310

ASIAN MZ. REIKO 587-377-1298 Avail. days

PAINTING BY DAVE VII MASSAGE Interior, Exterior, New Feeling over Construction. Comm/Indust. whelmed?

2 Journeyman w/over 50 EDEN yrs exp. %15 discount for Hard work day? seniors. Free estimates.

587-877-7399 10am-midnight Pampering at its work guaranteed. We best. #7 7464 Gaetz Allcarry WCB & Liability Ave. www.

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Insurance. 403-307-4798 Girls of all ages 598-3049 viimassage.biz PRO-PAINTING at reawww.eroticasplaymates.net In/Out Calls to sonable rates. 304-0379 Hotels. 403-986-6686 LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

RED DEER’S BEST

Misc.

Services

1290

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN 5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 SERVICES LTD. Spring & summer bookings.

Res./com. Your full service handyman. Brian 403-598-3857

Massage Therapy

1280

ASIAN Executive Touch Exclusive for men. Open 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 5003-50 St. 403-348-5650

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

GUTTERS CLEANED & REPAIRED. 403-391-2169 Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Sale Conducted By

RICK HORN AUCTIONS

OPEN HOUSE

MASON MARTIN HOMES 1-5, Sat. 1st & Sun. 2nd 639 Oak St. Springbrook 403-588-2231

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HALMAN Heights

TOOLS - SHOP AND MISC. EQUIP.

Ranger 250 Amp Gas Welder (305 hours); Oxy-Propane Cutting Outfit; Honda 2” and 3” Water Pumps; Eagle Upright. Shop Compressor (like new); Delta 16” Drillpress; Shop Milwaukee Magnetic Drill (like new); Numerous Air & Power Tools, Grinders, Cut off Saw; Battery Tester, Air Tank, Jacks, Chains, Boomers; JD Chain Saw; Electric Chain Saw Sharpener, 3/4 to 1” - 4 to 1 Reduction Wrench; Wood Cutting Band Saw; Large A-Frame Hoist; 2 Chain Hoists; 3-500 gal Fuel Tanks; Shop Built Wood Splitter; Buzz Saw on Frame; winPower 15 kw pto Generator. Coleman 5000 Watt Generator.

4130

wegotservices

30 Ton Hydraulic Truck Winch; Set

3 PT HITCH ATTACHMENTS:

MASON MARTIN HOMES New bungalow 1350 sq.ft.

Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550

3090

TRAILERS AND STORAGE UNITS: of 38000 Truck Rear Ends; Lincoln Roadrunner 5 ft. x 20 ft. 4 Horse/Stock Trailer; 1986 Royal T/A 2 Horse Trailer; (1950s) S/A Brantford 8 x 40 ft. Van Body Storage Shed; 2012 11 ft. x 20 ft.

Canopy Storage/Garage Unit.

MOUNTVIEW: Avail June 1, fully furn bdrm. $500/mo & $250 DD. Working M or Student only. 403-396-2468

4090

Manufactured Homes

4160

THE NORDIC

1770

4020

4040

4 bright bdrms, 3 full baths, fenced yard, double garage.

5†appls. In-suite laundry.

No pets. N/S. $2495 & UTIL, SD $2495. Avail NOW. SUNNYBROOK MAGNAVOX am/fm radio Hearthstone 403-314-0099 1 bdrm. apt. avail. May 15 with cassette player $20 . or 403-396-9554 Water & heat incld, clean ***SOLD*** and quiet, great location, FARM House close to R.D. no pets. 403-346-6686 no pets 403-347-0163 SPEAKER w/Ipod hookup $30 obo; Ipod docking staSYLVAN, avail. now until tion stereo $30; X box with Jun 25. 2 bdrm. + hide-a6 games $60 obo; PS 2 bed. $1400. neg. Fully w/6 games $60 obo 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, equipped Just bring your 403-782-3847 N/S. No pets. suitcase!! 403-880-0210 403-596-2444 WESTPARK, entire house 5 bdrms., 2 baths, new Misc. for Rooms carpet/paint, fireplace, Sale dble. garage, RV parking, For Rent private yard, all appls., COMPUTER Chair, $20; $1450 + utils. $425MO/d.d. incl. everything.

Corner computer stand, N/S, no pets. Avail. July 1 Female. 403-342-1834 or $20; 403-986-2849 Call Alex @ 403-519-2944 587-877-1883 after 2:30 GOLF carry bag $25 obo; gordonalexandercameron CLEAN, quiet, responsible, @gmail.com Action Spy books, 4 boxes Furn. $525. 403-346-7546 $60 obo 403-782-3847 FURN. room, all utils. and Condos/ VINYL FENCING material, cable incld, $425/mo. Text privacy & picket models, Townhouses any time or call between Discount pricing. Ltd. amt.

5 pm - 9 pm 403-598-6467 in stock. 43-347-6455 2 BDRM. Condo, 1.5 bath, near Collicutt & SE shopping centre. 6 appls. $1095/mo Musical $875 d.d. NO PETS, N/S, Instruments Avail. July 1.

403-342-0587, 391-9058 GUITAR, Black Segovia, ALIX: 2 bdrm. 1 bath, 5 like new. $150. appls, shows like new.

403-343-0858 $1000 + utils. Avail. June 1, 403-341-9974

Stereos TV's, VCRs

Pets & Supplies

Dump Trailer, 12 Ft. box, 7000 #AXLES.

CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses For Sale

MORRISROE MANOR

3030

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

DUMP TRAILER: 2007 Titan t/a

3090

A HALF DUPLEX HOME located @ 4624-46A Ave. Close, Sylvan Lake, AB. The 980 sq. ft. main flr. living room, dinette, kitchen with oak cabinetry, 1 average size bdrm., a master bdrm. & 4 piece main bathroom. Recent updates incl. 3 windows, appliances, roof, toilet RISER HOMES & flooring. Full height BLACKFALDS: concrete bsmt. is partly Bungalow, 2 bdrm., 2 bath, developed with family front. att. garage. Many room, spare room, me- upgrades. Blow-out price, c h a n i c a l r o o m , & 1 $319,900. Includes. legal complete bdrm. & 3 piece fees, GST & appls. bathroom. 1-403-887-2693 Front sod & tree.

Call Lloyd 403-391-9294 FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, RAYMOND SHORES www.laebon.com prices, address, owner’s GULL LAKE, phone #, etc. 342-7355 Laebon Homes 346-7273 2012 Park model home, on Help-U-Sell of Red Deer 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. professionally landscaped www.homesreddeer.com Adult bldg. N/S No pets Condos/ lot. Fully furnished.

403-755-9852 Too many extras to list.

LUXURIOUS 1 1/2 DUPLEX Townhouses 403-350-5524 for details. in gated community in Red Deer. 2 bdrm. + den, 3 bath. MASON MARTIN HOMES Phone 403-506-9491 New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., Lots For MASON MARTIN HOMES $189,800. 403-588-2231 Sale New bi-level, 1320 sq.ft.

NOW RENTING 3 bdrm., 2 bath. $367,900.

1& 2 BDRM. APT’S. FULLY SERVICED Dbl. att. garage.

2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Manufactured res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

403-588-2550 Newer bldg. secure entry Homes Builders terms or owner w/ onsite manager, 5 MASON MARTIN HOMES will J.V. with investors or appls., incl. heat and hot MUST SELL New bi-level, 1400 sq.ft. subtrades who wish to become water, washer/dryer

By Owner. home builders. Great hookup, infloor heating, a/c., Dbl. att. garage. $409,900.

Mauricia 403-340-0225 403-588-2550 returns. Call 403-588-8820 car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

1760

YOUR CAREER IN

W900 T/A c/w Cat 3406 - 425 hp, 15 spd., 46,000 rears. 14 ft. steel box.

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rentals

EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 baths, APPLS. reconditioned lrg. rent $2000 + DD selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. Avail. now. 403-346-5885 warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042

Household Furnishings

Our training center is located in Red Deer For more information on courses, dates, and mobile bookings call Murray @ 403-740-5316 To register call Tina @ 403-348-0687

GRAVEL TRUCK: 1980 Kenworth

Rooms For Rent

3060

– CPR/First Aid Certification – Advanced First Aid Courses – Heart & Stroke Instructor Training – Mobile Service for Groups of 8 or more

W-30 Gas Tractor, McCormick w-6 Gas Tractor.

3040

1900

900

TRACTORS: I.H.

1860

3050

LIGHT Oak table & (6) chairs, opens to 8’. $350.

403-343-7393

COLLECTORS

Sporting Goods

Riverfront Estates

Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, blinds, large balcony, no pets, n/s, $1245 or $1270 along the river.

SD $1000. avail. June 7, 403-304-7576 347-7545

GOLF CLUB SET 3 BDRM. furnished, Main RIGHT HANDED ST. Condor, 15 mins E. of King Kong Driver, Rocky. Fenced yard. $800 Callaway 3 Wood, Ping Selling by + DD & utils. 6 appls. Refs Eye 2 Style Irons, 3-PW, Totally Unreserved Auction required. 403-877-4601 BECU. 52 & 56 Degree Unit #43 being a Park Model Wedges, Wilson Harmonizer Newly Reno’d Mobile Mobile Home & Lot Putter. Like new TNT FREE Shaw Cable + more cart bag. $80 for all. $950/month Located in Phase 2 SOLD PRIVATE CONTRACTOR Mauricia 403-340-0225 of the Gated Community Shop Dispersal of Tools USED SET OF LADIES of Whispering Pines at including: large Red Metal R.H. GOLF CLUBS. Pine Lake, Alberta which “Craftsman, Sears”, Auto3 graphite woods, 5 irons, 4 Plexes/ is adjacent to the Golf motive style rolling cart bag, Callaway shoes: size 6 Plexes Course, Club House, w/tool box on top with ‘ 6.5, easy pull cart. $135.

Restaurant and Several contents: good clean hand 403-346-3581 after 6 p.m. 4 PLEX in Normandeau, 2 Other Amenities. tools, fleet battery charger/ WORLD famous, 2 com- bdrm, 4 appls, water, sewbooster on wheels, er & garbage incld’d, Open House: June 1st & 8th partment, 4 man, RUBBER portable air tank, metal or by Appointment from RAFT. Can attach motor to fenced yard, no pets, $900 dolly, B & D recipro. saw, b a c k . U s e d o n l y o n c e . rent/s.d. 403-788-3980 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Hitachi circ. saw, Brat air $200. 403-343-0858 or 403-357-4094 nailer, 3/8” reversible drill, Real Estate Transaction ACROSS from park, Saber jig saw, 1/2 reverare being Handled by 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, sible drill and various tool Travel Morrison Realty 4 appls. Rent $975/mo. boxes w/contents of good Packages (403) 783-0556 d.d. $650. Avail. now or tools etc.

June 1. 403-304-5337 For More Information, Photos BUD HAYNES AUCTIONS TRAVEL ALBERTA Ph: 403-347-5855 & the Terms & Conditions, GLENDALE Alberta offers See Classification 1530 please view our website at 2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., SOMETHING www.allenolsonauction.com for auction dates & details. $950 incl. sewer, water & for everyone. garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

Make your travel Sale Conducted by: July 1. 403-304-5337 plans now.

PARKVALE 2 bdrm. lower Firewood ALLEN B. OLSON level duplex, 4 appls. close AUCTION SERVICE LTD. to trails, N/S, no pets. $800 Rimbey, Alberta AFFORDABLE + utils. 403-346-4297 License No. 165690 Homestead Firewood (403) 843-2747 Sale Site Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 1-855-783-0556 Toll Free 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 E-mail: Suites AGRICULTURAL abolson@telusplanet.net FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver Homepage: CLASSIFICATIONS CITY VIEW APTS. 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 www.allenolsonauction.com Clean, quiet, newly reno’d 2000-2290 adult building. Rent $850, LOGS S.D. $700. Avail. June 1.

Semi loads of pine, spruce, Near hospital. No pets tamarack, poplar.

Bicycles 403-340-1032 or 318-3679 Price depends on location. Horses Lil Mule Logging LARGE 2 bdrm. bsmt.

403-318-4346 MATCHING DELSOL 1xi WANTED: all types of suite in Blackfalds, own 2.0 Bicycles, 20 & 22 in.

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Notice To Creditors And Claimants

1997 TRAVELLAIRE Prestige 265, clean, well kept, back kitchen w/sunshine ceiling, electric front jacks, back tow hitch $8000. 887-6295

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Estate of Edna Karen Bruce also known as Karen Bruce who died on April 11, 2013

6010 Court File No. FC-308-12

IN THE COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH OF NEW BRUNSWICK TRIAL DIVISION JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF FREDERICTON

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WASHINGTON — The drone attack that killed a Pakistan Taliban deputy leader this week was a clear signal that despite President Barack Obama’s promise last week of new transparency in the drone program, the CIA will still launch secret attacks on militants in north Pakistan and the administration will not have to tell anyone about it.

The CIA drone took off from Afghanistan on Wednesday and struck a compound in Pakistan’s remote tribal areas where the agency believed Waliur Rehman was staying. The Pakistani Taliban later confirmed the death of Rehman, believed to be one of the key planners behind the deadly suicide bombing against a CIA base in 2009.

But White House officials would not even confirm that the strike occurred, much less confirming Rehman’s death, although the president pledged in a national security speech only last week that he would be more transparent about U.S. counterterrorism actions.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Thursday would only say broadly that Obama feels a responsibility to protect U.S. forces in the “Afghan war theatre” — it includes Pakistan — and would use a “range of abilities” to provide those forces as much protection as possible.

Obama announced new “presidential policy guidelines” last week on the standards his administration has been using when deciding to launch lethal strikes, including a guideline to strike a target only if it presents an “imminent threat” to U.S. national security and only if the target cannot be captured.

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CHICAGO — A U.S. judge sentenced a young Lebanese immigrant to 23 years in prison Thursday for placing a backpack he believed contained a powerful bomb along a bustling street near a major Chicago sports stadium.

The 25-year-old Sami Samir Hassoun, a former baker, pleaded guilty last year to dropping the backpack into a trash can outside a bar packed with late-night revelers across the road from Wrigley Field in 2010. FBI undercover agents had given him the bag.

The defence depicted Hassoun as a gullible youth sucked into the sting during an alcoholsoaked stretch of his life by an informant eager to please his FBI handlers.

Prosecutors say he declined repeated opportunities to back out of the plot.

The judge invoked the spectre of the deadly Boston Marathon bombings in April, saying if Hassoun’s bomb had been real, it would have made Boston look like a minor incident.

Hassoun, crying, apologized.

As part of a plea deal with the government, Hassoun pleaded guilty last year to two explosives counts. In return, he faced a sentencing range of 20 to 30 years, rather than a maximum term of life in prison.

Hassoun blamed his actions in part on childhood trauma living in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. During civil strife there, Hassoun, then 11, witnessed machete killings from an apartment balcony, he wrote in his sentencing statement. His family emigrated from Lebanon to the U.S. in 2008.

To dampen his emotional pain, he wrote that he drank alcohol “all day, every day” for months before the would-be attack in 2010.

The defence has suggested investigators may have entrapped Hassoun, arguing the paid informant urged him to agree to increasingly ominous-sounding plots.

Prone to boasting and eager to impress, Hassoun made what the defence described as absurd claims that he could make a gun out of two pieces of wood and a spring, and a bomb out of baking soda, one of Hassoun’s attorneys, Matthew Madden, said.

He also stated his preference for using the military, not the CIA, to carry out such strikes.

But he also indicated that the CIA would continue to control and run its secret drone programs in places like Pakistan and Yemen. While the CIA has permission from the Yemeni government to take strikes, it operates without permission from the Pakistani government, and the newly elected administration of Nawaz Sharif has demanded an end to the program that has killed more than 3,000 people since 2004.

The program has also eliminated dozens of key militants, including al-Qaida’s second-incommand, Abu Yahya al-Libi, last year.

Obama’s speech promising more transparency is not necessarily at odds with this week’s covert strike, according to Shamila Chaudhary, a former National Security Council staffer who worked on Pakistan.

“He’s codifying it, trying to set down in legal language” the counterterrorism program built during Obama’s first term, said Chaudhary, now at the New America Foundation.

“But Pakistan is still an exception,” she said.

The fact that the American drone took out one of Pakistan’s enemies also probably helped mute Islamabad’s reaction, she added.

U.S. officials briefed on the drone program say the administration’s intent in the speech was to take the heat off the controversial drone strikes by promising future action would be done by the military when possible.

The suggestion was that military strikes are more subject to publicly accessible congressional oversight. In fact, Congress is briefed on drone strikes by both the military and CIA but in closed, classified hearings.

But U.S. officials say they will continue to carry out drone strikes, launched from bases in neighbouring Afghanistan or anywhere else al-Qaida and its affiliates operate and local governments can’t or won’t act.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

301443E24,31

DANIEL STANLEY SHARPE and AMANDA SHARPE,

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Would-be Chicago bomber given 23-year prison term

DESPITE OBAMA PLEDGE FOR TRANSPARENCY

DAVID GORMAN, PLAINTIFF,

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A wall cloud forms near Interstate 35 and Purcell, Okla. on Thursday. At least two tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and another hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country. At least nine injuries were reported.

Drone strike shows that secret CIA attacks will continue

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MOSCOW — A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday.

The carcass was in such good shape because its lower part was stuck in pure ice, said Semyon Grigoryev, the head of the Mammoth Museum, who led the expedition into the Lyakhovsky Islands off the Siberian coast.

“The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities bellow the belly and when we broke these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out,” he said in a statement released by the North-Eastern

Federal University in Yakutsk, which sent the team.

Wooly mammoths are thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago, although scientists think small groups of them lived longer in Alaska and on islands off Siberia.

Scientists have deciphered much of the woolly mammoth’s genetic code from their hair, and some believe it’s possible to clone them if living cells are found Grigoryev said the find could provide the necessary material.

The blood of mammoths appeared not to freeze in extreme temperatures, likely keeping mammoths warm, he said.

The temperature at the time of excavation was -7 to - 10 de-

grees Celsius (14 to 19 degrees Fahrenheit.)

The researchers collected the samples of the animal’s blood in tubes with a special preservative agent. They were sent to Yakutsk for bacterial examination in order to spot potentially dangerous infections.

The carcass’ muscle tissue was also in perfect condition.

“The fragments of muscle tissues, which we’ve found out of the body, have a natural red colour of fresh meat,” Grigoryev said.

Up to 4 metres (13 feet) in height and 10 tons in weight, mammoths roamed across huge areas between Great Britain and North America and were driven to extinction by humans and the changing climate.

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